dally

Plural: dallies

Verb

Verb Forms: dallied, dallying, dallies

• To waste time, loiter, or move playfully.
• behave carelessly or indifferently
• waste time
  • "Get busy--don't dally!"
• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
• consider not very seriously
• To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
• To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
• To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
• To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal

Noun

• Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
• Alternative form of dolly (“offering of fruit or flowers”).

Examples

• Players who DALLY too long often miss opportunities for high-scoring words.

Synonyms

butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dawdle, flirt, mash, philander, play, romance, toy, trifle, arse about, arse around, bludge, bum around, cabbage, canoodle, caress, chuckle, clown around, coax, cosset, dally, dandle, dawt, dick about, dick around, diddle, dilly-dally, dretch, drumble, faddle, faff, faff about, faff around, fanny about, fanny around, fart about, fart around, feel up, fiddle about, fiddle around, fond, fondle, fool about, fool around, footle, forslow, goof around, goof off, grabble, grope, hang about, hang around, hang out, horse around, idle, jerk off, kill time, lallygag, lamp, laze, laze about, laze around, linger, loaf, loaf about, loaf around, loiter, lollop, lollygag, mess around, mill about, mill around, muck about, muck around, nantle, pet, pettle, piddle, pingle, shift, smuggle, stand by, tarry, tiddle, tool around, touch up, waste time, while

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