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Definition of dally in English: dallyverbdallied, dallying, dallies ˈdaliˈdæli [no object]1Act or move slowly. she'd dallied upstairs long enough to put on a little make-up Example sentencesExamples - The list of things he has promised is a good list, but there is no time to dally, whether by land, sea or air.
- He dallies long enough to allow Djourou to block his initial shot, but a lucky rebound gives him another chance.
- Simon will take his place in the back-row, while fly-half Jones can expect to feel the force of his club-mate should he dally on the ball for too long.
- But by then Livingston should have killed the game when Fernandez dispossessed Murdock again in 67 and cut inside to Lilley who dallied before striking a tame shot wide.
- Sligo players, anxious not to dally, sought to move the ball on with the minimum of fuss.
- It's a very small-scale event, so please don't dither, dally or delay.
- When I was 12, I dallied before basketball practice until it was late enough that I needed to ask my mother for a ride.
- Just wear enough if it's chilly and don't dally afterwards!
- Catz dallied on the ball in the left-back slot and the alert Woodcock stole the ball, but he was stopped from finishing at the last gasp.
- L. was angry by then, convinced that A. was OK and that he was simply dallying around at his mother's house.
- She won't have much time to dally on the Prom this week, though.
- But if McLeish was the type of person to dally on instances of coincidence and place his faith in fate, he need only look at last term.
- The modern generation knows about lounging in the Lakes and dallying in the Dales, but very little about our local footpaths.
- I could imagine the sublime Rita Heywood or Julia Roberts both have been regular visitors to the island over the years dallying over a shore side breakfast.
- She'd promised the Dean that she would be at his office as soon as she got up, and she had already dallied enough as it was.
- The obvious reality that there is little or no time for dallying when in possession didn't register for some of the players until the game had warmed up.
- Not one to dally about, Sally quickly gathered up her cast and got them safely out of the building.
- Instead he dallies and allows the impetus to drain away from the move with a pass all the way back to Gary Speed who has a forlorn pop from distance.
- There we would dally through the long night hours until the tinny clock sounded Reveille.
- From the corner, the Colombian international seized on the ball unmarked at the far post but dallied enough to allow Edmondson a smart block.
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 Scottish & Irish traik informal dilly-dally archaic or literary tarry 2dally withHave a casual romantic or sexual liaison with. he should stop dallying with film stars Example sentencesExamples - Others would say that, well, actually Diana was dallying, too.
- In the past NY women might have dallied with a man in uniform, but wouldn't have pursued one.
- As anyone who has been listening in over the past few weeks knows, naughty Miss Emma has recently dallied with her fiancé's brother.
- They starved together, Minna helped his career, they separated, he dallied with other women, they tried again, they gave up.
- You shouldn't have been dallying with your boyfriend over there!
- For a long time Gianni was known as a playboy, dallying with aristocrats and movie stars before finally sorting out his inheritance.
- I hit her, I couldn't help myself, I had been watching Fire all day, and she had been dallying with that scum.
- My friend, both your wife and your housekeeper know that you no longer dally with her, and her loitering in your home is merely charity on your part.
- By dallying with her at Alexandria, he risked losing what he had just won at Pharsalus.
- Given that Mariella has been dallying with the Guy from the Bank who is twenty-two, I'm wondering whether we should start a national society for well-meaning would-be cradle snatchers.
- John can dally with a host of other women but never find in them the revelation of heavenly glory that he beholds after the most awkward kiss with the scholarly Lucy.
- In fact I understand that the plural should be employed - there were actually three of them - there was the one he was dallying with in the nightclub, plus the girlfriend, and the recent ex who discovered them.
- She was probably dallying with that stud Michael.
- Charles is in love with Maria; Joseph is courting the same girl for her fortune, while at the same time dallying with Lady Teazle.
- Has he been ordered to stand up there in disgrace, as penance for dallying with Lady Hamilton and asking Hardy to kiss him?
- In their cozy little arrangement, he gets the freedom to dally now and then, so long as he keeps to the couple?
- Mr. Lee is now dallying with younger women, and the middle-aged Ching is desperate to reverse her fading looks and retain her husband's interest in her.
- Because you wisely choose not to dally with a guy who could be married for quite a while - for whatever reason - why don't you proceed with No.2 as if there were no No.1?
- As to his dallying with a 21-year-old, she noted, ‘Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.’
Synonyms trifle, toy, play, amuse oneself, flirt, play fast and loose, tinker, philander, womanize, carry on informal play around, mess about/around - 2.1 Show a casual interest in.
the company was dallying with the idea of opening a new office Example sentencesExamples - It is a choice some will make in a world where many feel there is less and less time to dally with being rigorous.
- Similarly, I have gotten email from people ‘warning’ me that I am dallying with heterodoxy because I don't see a big problem with Harry Potter books and I kinda liked the Matrix.
- He warned that public figures should not dally with theories that might prove to have no scientific basis.
- Some regarded him as dallying with nationalism.
- It doesn't matter how much of the middle you get if your core vote is off dallying with fringe parties.
- When he is on the verge of lunacy and death, Hester proposes to him that they shall flee to Europe, and for a moment he dallies with the idea.
- Others may like to visit the website www (enough dallying with the law - Ed.)
- The Diary then drew from John a semi-promise to vote Labour again next time, although he is still dallying with going Green.
- House of Leaves is proof that in this cyber age, books are not finished yet - they still beckon with mystery; still dally with the unknown and unknowable.
- You come to win, not to dally with numbers and root for the home team.
- The artist is a major figure who never puts a foot wrong and remains an example to those dallying with extraneous objects to add to a clean canvas in the name of art.
- As a woman I feel comfortable folded up in things, you know, practical, not in the abstract, dallying with the emotional side, designing my appearance.
- In press interviews director Schütte has made no secret of the fact that he has dallied with the real order of events and that occasionally his film strays from historical fact.
- Even those who merely dallied with the legend found themselves strangely affected.
- Despite its name, however, Canteen's desire to dally with memory and pop-cultural mythology is not as wholehearted or as determined as Isla's.
- With nothing left for Woods to do but dally with records, it was time to congratulate Pebble Beach for an Open in which the greatest current player in the game won it.
- Indeed, to dally with the theory publicly could do serious damage to a geologist's career.
- I have dallied with the dark side but like Luke, I will never turn.
Origin Middle English: from Old French dalier 'to chat', of unknown origin. shilly-shally from mid 18th century: People unable to make up their minds whether to do something are likely to ask themselves ‘Shall I?’ repeatedly. With the rhyming impulse also seen in dilly-dally (early 17th century) (dally came from the French for ‘to chat’ in the Middle Ages) and willy-nilly, people in the 18th century mocked this tendency by expanding it to ‘shill I, shall I?’, and so shilly-shally was born.
Rhymes Ali, alley, Allie, Ally, bally, dilly-dally, farfalle, galley, Halley, mallee, Mexicali, pally, Raleigh, rally, reveille, sally, tally, valley Definition of dally in US English: dallyverbˈdæliˈdalē [no object]1Act or move slowly. workers were loafing, dallying, or goofing off Example sentencesExamples - Simon will take his place in the back-row, while fly-half Jones can expect to feel the force of his club-mate should he dally on the ball for too long.
- From the corner, the Colombian international seized on the ball unmarked at the far post but dallied enough to allow Edmondson a smart block.
- There we would dally through the long night hours until the tinny clock sounded Reveille.
- The modern generation knows about lounging in the Lakes and dallying in the Dales, but very little about our local footpaths.
- Catz dallied on the ball in the left-back slot and the alert Woodcock stole the ball, but he was stopped from finishing at the last gasp.
- It's a very small-scale event, so please don't dither, dally or delay.
- The list of things he has promised is a good list, but there is no time to dally, whether by land, sea or air.
- L. was angry by then, convinced that A. was OK and that he was simply dallying around at his mother's house.
- Not one to dally about, Sally quickly gathered up her cast and got them safely out of the building.
- The obvious reality that there is little or no time for dallying when in possession didn't register for some of the players until the game had warmed up.
- Instead he dallies and allows the impetus to drain away from the move with a pass all the way back to Gary Speed who has a forlorn pop from distance.
- But by then Livingston should have killed the game when Fernandez dispossessed Murdock again in 67 and cut inside to Lilley who dallied before striking a tame shot wide.
- She'd promised the Dean that she would be at his office as soon as she got up, and she had already dallied enough as it was.
- I could imagine the sublime Rita Heywood or Julia Roberts both have been regular visitors to the island over the years dallying over a shore side breakfast.
- When I was 12, I dallied before basketball practice until it was late enough that I needed to ask my mother for a ride.
- Sligo players, anxious not to dally, sought to move the ball on with the minimum of fuss.
- He dallies long enough to allow Djourou to block his initial shot, but a lucky rebound gives him another chance.
- Just wear enough if it's chilly and don't dally afterwards!
- But if McLeish was the type of person to dally on instances of coincidence and place his faith in fate, he need only look at last term.
- She won't have much time to dally on the Prom this week, though.
Synonyms dawdle, delay, loiter, linger, waste time, kill time, take one's time, while away time 2Have a casual romantic or sexual liaison with. he should stop dallying with movie stars Example sentencesExamples - Charles is in love with Maria; Joseph is courting the same girl for her fortune, while at the same time dallying with Lady Teazle.
- In the past NY women might have dallied with a man in uniform, but wouldn't have pursued one.
- In fact I understand that the plural should be employed - there were actually three of them - there was the one he was dallying with in the nightclub, plus the girlfriend, and the recent ex who discovered them.
- By dallying with her at Alexandria, he risked losing what he had just won at Pharsalus.
- You shouldn't have been dallying with your boyfriend over there!
- For a long time Gianni was known as a playboy, dallying with aristocrats and movie stars before finally sorting out his inheritance.
- Others would say that, well, actually Diana was dallying, too.
- I hit her, I couldn't help myself, I had been watching Fire all day, and she had been dallying with that scum.
- She was probably dallying with that stud Michael.
- As anyone who has been listening in over the past few weeks knows, naughty Miss Emma has recently dallied with her fiancé's brother.
- My friend, both your wife and your housekeeper know that you no longer dally with her, and her loitering in your home is merely charity on your part.
- As to his dallying with a 21-year-old, she noted, ‘Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.’
- In their cozy little arrangement, he gets the freedom to dally now and then, so long as he keeps to the couple?
- Given that Mariella has been dallying with the Guy from the Bank who is twenty-two, I'm wondering whether we should start a national society for well-meaning would-be cradle snatchers.
- Mr. Lee is now dallying with younger women, and the middle-aged Ching is desperate to reverse her fading looks and retain her husband's interest in her.
- They starved together, Minna helped his career, they separated, he dallied with other women, they tried again, they gave up.
- Has he been ordered to stand up there in disgrace, as penance for dallying with Lady Hamilton and asking Hardy to kiss him?
- Because you wisely choose not to dally with a guy who could be married for quite a while - for whatever reason - why don't you proceed with No.2 as if there were no No.1?
- John can dally with a host of other women but never find in them the revelation of heavenly glory that he beholds after the most awkward kiss with the scholarly Lucy.
Synonyms trifle, toy, play, amuse oneself, flirt, play fast and loose, tinker, philander, womanize, carry on - 2.1 Show a casual interest in something, without committing oneself seriously.
the company has been dallying with the idea of opening a new office Example sentencesExamples - When he is on the verge of lunacy and death, Hester proposes to him that they shall flee to Europe, and for a moment he dallies with the idea.
- It is a choice some will make in a world where many feel there is less and less time to dally with being rigorous.
- You come to win, not to dally with numbers and root for the home team.
- I have dallied with the dark side but like Luke, I will never turn.
- It doesn't matter how much of the middle you get if your core vote is off dallying with fringe parties.
- Others may like to visit the website www (enough dallying with the law - Ed.)
- He warned that public figures should not dally with theories that might prove to have no scientific basis.
- As a woman I feel comfortable folded up in things, you know, practical, not in the abstract, dallying with the emotional side, designing my appearance.
- The artist is a major figure who never puts a foot wrong and remains an example to those dallying with extraneous objects to add to a clean canvas in the name of art.
- Similarly, I have gotten email from people ‘warning’ me that I am dallying with heterodoxy because I don't see a big problem with Harry Potter books and I kinda liked the Matrix.
- With nothing left for Woods to do but dally with records, it was time to congratulate Pebble Beach for an Open in which the greatest current player in the game won it.
- Indeed, to dally with the theory publicly could do serious damage to a geologist's career.
- The Diary then drew from John a semi-promise to vote Labour again next time, although he is still dallying with going Green.
- In press interviews director Schütte has made no secret of the fact that he has dallied with the real order of events and that occasionally his film strays from historical fact.
- Despite its name, however, Canteen's desire to dally with memory and pop-cultural mythology is not as wholehearted or as determined as Isla's.
- Some regarded him as dallying with nationalism.
- House of Leaves is proof that in this cyber age, books are not finished yet - they still beckon with mystery; still dally with the unknown and unknowable.
- Even those who merely dallied with the legend found themselves strangely affected.
Origin Middle English: from Old French dalier ‘to chat’, of unknown origin. |