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Learn to pronounce dal·ly

/ˈdalē/
verb
  1. act or move slowly.
    "workers were loafing, dallying, or goofing off"
    synonyms: dawdle, delay, loiter, linger, waste time, kill time, take one's time, while away time, lag, trail, straggle, fall behind, amble, plod, trudge, meander, drift, traik, dilly-dally, tarry
  2. have a casual romantic or sexual liaison with.
    "he should stop dallying with movie stars"
    synonyms: trifle, toy, play, amuse oneself, flirt, play fast and loose, tinker, philander, womanize, carry on, play around, mess around

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DALLIED meaning: 1. past simple and past participle of dally 2. to waste time or do something slowly. Learn more.
to trifle with a lover's feelings · a political novice toying with great issues · dallying with the idea of building a boat someday · flirted with one fashionable ...
Synonyms for DALLIED: played, toyed, frolicked, entertained, recreated, rollicked, joked, sported; Antonyms of DALLIED: worked, labored, toiled, struggled, ...
English edit. Verb edit. dallied. simple past and past participle of dally. Anagrams edit · allided, dialled · Last edited 10 months ago by WingerBot ...
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Dally means “to waste time.” When you dally, you will cause a delay because of your dawdling. You have probably heard the expression "to dilly-dally" — which ...
to play mockingly; trifle: to dally with danger. See more. verb (used with object),dal·lied ...
dal•ly · 1. to waste time; loiter; delay. · 2. to act playfully, esp. in an amorous or flirtatious way. · 3. to play mockingly; trifle: to dally with danger.
to waste time or do something slowly: She dallied over her morning coffee.