Dally

Definitions: Dally

Dally

Verb

1. Behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection".

2. Waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!".

3. Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women".

4. Consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dally" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Dally

Amusement

While away the time, beguile the time; kill time, dally.

Endearment

Bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les yeux doux.

Inactivity

Idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time; spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally.

Irresolution

Verb: be irresolute; Adjective: hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle; (inactivity); remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with; will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would"; falter, waver

Lateness

Put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; (store); temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it.

Crosswords: Dally

Mrs. Dally (1965)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dilly Dally (reference)

• Don't Dilly Dally Dear (reference)

• Grace Livingstone Hill: Collection No. 5/Chautauqua Idyl, a Dally Rate, the Parkerstown Delegate [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

• No Longer a Dilly Dally (Another Sommer-Time Story) (reference)

• Whisper Into My Good Ear and Mrs. Dally Has a Lover. (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Dally Kimoko & Les Top Swing [IMPORT] (reference)

• Dally the Bluestem Grass (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "dally": dally away ♦ dally over smth. ♦ dally with ♦ dally with smb ♦ dally with smb.'s affections ♦ dally with smth. ♦ dally with the idea of ♦ dilly dally. Additional references.

Ending with "dally": Dilly-dally.

Albanian

dëfrej (amuse, entertain, jollify, joy, make whoopee, rejoice), shtyj diçka, rri duarkryq (dawdle, sit back, stand idly by), humb kohën kot, flirtoj (flirt, philander), bëj naze (take a notion). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لها (disport, have a good time, have fun, play about, toy, trifle, tumble), ‏غازل (court, flirt, make a pass at, make out, mash, pet, philander, spoon, sue), ‏توانى (dawdle, delay, linger, loiter, lop, slacken, tarry), ‏أضاع سدى (waste), ‏داعب (pet, slobber, stroke, tickle), ‏بدد (burn, dawdle, devour, disperse, dissipate, fool, fritter, melt, resolve, scatter, slattern, spend, spoil, squander, throwaway, waste). (various references)

Bulgarian 

флиртувам (flirt, gallant, gallivant, mash, philander, toy, vamp), шляя се (dawdle, fool about, fool around, gallivant, hang about, hang around, idle, loaf, lollop, meander, mess about, mess around, mooch, moon about, mosey, saunter, screw around, swan around, vagabond), губя си времето (fiddle), играя си (fidget, fool with, meddle, mess about, mess around, monkey, play about, play around). (various references)

Czech

loudat se (amble, dawdle, dawdle about, dawdle over one's work, hang back, hang behind, lag, linger, loiter, saunter, trail, traipse). (various references)

Farsi 

وقت راببازی گذراندن , تاخیرکردن (Defer, Delay, Demurrage, Lag, Linger, Loiter, Retard, Tarry), طفره زدن (Dodge, Elude, Hedge, Shirk, Stall, Swerve, Wriggle). (various references)

French

lanterner (dawdle, dilly dally), lambiner (dawdle), gâcher, flirter, badiner. (various references)

German

trödeln (dawdle, dilly dally, goof, loiter, niggle, to dally, to dawdle). (various references)

Greek 

παίζω (act, fool around, frolic, game, horse around, monkey, play, rollick, sport, toy, trifle, twiddle), χρονοτριβώ (delay, lag, linger, play for time, procrastinate, tarry, temporarize, temporize, whiles), χασομερώ (dawdle, diddle, dillydally, fiddle, lag, laze, loaf, loiter), ερωτοτροπώ (court, flirt, philander, smooch, vamp), τρυφερολογώ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לעכב (delay, detain, hinder, hold up, impede, inhibit, prevent, retard, stop, stunt), לאחור (astern, backward, be late, behind, overstay, rearwards, remain behind, reverse), ל�"תמזמז (canoodle, flirt, fool around, make out, neck, pet), ל�"תעלס (delight in, exult, make love, rejoice, solace oneself with love), ל�"שתעשע (entertain, fool about with, fool around with, lark, play about, skylark, sport, toy), ל�"שת�"ות (linger). (various references)

Hungarian

dévajkodik (to play the giddy goat), enyeleg (banter, to dally, to jack around, to trifle, to wanton). (various references)

Indonesian

merengek-rengek, menghabiskan waktu (waste time). (various references)

Italian

scherzare (Coquet, frolic, jest, joke, kid, play, trifle, wanton), oziare (idle, idle about, laze, laze around, Mike, mooch, slouch about, slouch around), gingillarsi (dawdle, fiddle, moon, trifle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

いじり回す (cheerfully, excitedly, flirt, make out, to dally, to flirt with, to tinker with, to twist up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いちゃつく (to dally, to flirt with). (various references)

Manx

feial (weeds). (various references)

Pig Latin

allyday.(various references)

Portuguese

divertir-se (disposable, enjoy, feast, flirt, frolic, fun, funambulist, gambol, jollify, lark, merry-make, move away, play, recreate, wassail), demorar (defer, delay, draggle, dweller, hold up, keep up, linger, procrastination, prolongation, protract, retard, slow, Tarry, wait), galantear (coquet, court, gallant, philander, woo), flertar (coquet, flirt, philander), atrasar-se (drop behind, fall down, it's getting late, lag, retard). (various references)

Romanian

trena, tergiversa (delay, temporize), tãrãgãna (drawl, drone, hang a leg, shuffle, Tarry, temporize), se zbengui (Frisk, frolic, gambol), se juca (be, fiddle, flirt, game, play, play upon, shy, twiddle with), se distra (amuse, enjoy oneself, entertain oneself, frolic, have a good time, have fun, rejoice, revel, sport), se amuza (enjoy oneself, have a good time, recreate, sport), se ţine de fleacuri (fribble, frivol, niggle, peddle), scãpa ocazia, oscila (dilly dally, dither, hesitate, librate, oscillate, rock, swing, vacillate, vibrate, waver), hoinãri (gad, linger, loaf, loiter, loll about, meander, ramble, roam, rove, saunter, scour about, stand about, stroll, wander), glumi (fool, jape, jest, joke, jolly, kid, lark), cocheta cu, amâna (adjourn, continue, delay, drive, hang up, hold over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, protract, put by, put off, refer, reprieve, shunt, stay). (various references)

Russian 

кокетничать (coquet, flirt), несерьезно относиться, заниматься пустяками (niggle, palter, peddle, piddle, piddled, trifle), прохлаждаться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kolebati se (dilly dally, dillydally, fluctuate, pause, vacillate, waver). (various references)

Spanish

divertirse por completo (debauch, lark, skylark), dilatar (adjourn, dilate, distend, expand, widen), tardar, perder el tiempo, tardar (be detained, be kept in, be late, be slow, delay, latest, linger, lope, postpone, remain, stay on, take, Tarry), perder el tiempo (bugger about, bugger around, dawdle, dilly dally, fool around, idle away, loiter, lose one's time, mess around, muck about, piddle, wait about, wait around, waste time), malgastar tiempo libre, malgastar el tiempo. (various references)

Swedish

söla (doodle away, draggle, lag, linger, loiter, soil), leka (disport oneself, fiddle, lark, paddle, play, spawning, sport, to spawn, toy, wanton). (various references)

Turkish

zaman öldürmek (dally away, idle about), oynaşmak (Frisk, play, play on, play upon, play with, play with each other, spoon), oyalanmak (amuse oneself, be amused, be pleased with, delay, dilly dally, disport oneself, fool, fool about, fool around, footle, fribble, frivol, hang out, linger, loiter, mess around, monkey around, piddle, play around, Potter, potter about, potter at, procrastinate, stay, Tarry, trifle, trifle with, waste time). (various references)

Ukranian 

марнувати час (dawdle, idle away, lounge, putter), марно втрачати час, займатися дрібницями (niggle, palter). (various references)

Welsh

pencawna (trifle). (various references)

trices. (various references)

dalier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dally": dallying. (additional references)

Words ending with "dally": anodally, bactericidally, bipedally, bridally, cathodally, caudally, colloidally, conchoidally, dillydally, feudally, fluidally, fungicidally, hebdomadally, herbicidally, homicidally, insecticidally, intertidally, modally, nodally, pyramidally, sigmoidally, sinusoidally, spheroidally, suicidally, tidally, toroidally. (additional references)

Words containing "dally": dillydallying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dally" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cally, dadly, dailley, D'ailly, dalby, dald, daley, dalf, dali, dalie, Dalip, Dalj, Dalk, dall, dalla, dallii, Dallin, dallly, dallyo, dalq, daly, Dalys, Daplyn, Davlyn, dawly, dayly, deally, delli, delly, Delpy, dilli, Dily, Dladla, dolley, dply, drally, ladly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ally, lady, yald.

-2 letters: all, dal, day, lad, lay.

-3 letters: ad, al, ay, la, ya.

+1 letter: baldly, dually, gladly.

+2 letters: adultly, allayed, alloyed, blandly, daylily, drywall, ducally, ideally, lairdly, modally, nodally, tidally, validly.

+3 letters: alderfly, anodally, balladry, bridally, caudally, dallying, dentally, disloyal, dismally, distally, dorsally, drywalls, elatedly, feudally, ladylike, ladylove, ladypalm, landlady, laudably, leadenly, medially, pallidly, placidly, playland, radially, ribaldly, walleyed, welladay, willyard.

+4 letters: alkylated, allegedly, allowedly, belatedly, bellyband, bipedally, cordially, cycloidal, damselfly, darlingly, daylilies, decimally, digitally, diurnally, exaltedly, eyeballed, federally, flaccidly, fluidally, gradually, invalidly, ladyloves, ladypalms, laggardly, languidly, learnedly, medically, medullary, modularly, oedipally, phyllodia, playfield, playlands, radically, relatedly, relaxedly, saleslady, squalidly, syllabled, tallyhoed, unalloyed, welladays.

+5 letters: anodically, ballyhooed, bellyached, bellybands, blizzardly, cardinally, cathodally, chlamydial, cladophyll, dazzlingly, delectably, delicately, deplorably, deployable, desolately, detailedly, diagonally, dialyzable, dilatorily, dillydally, disloyally, disloyalty, disyllabic, disyllable, drawlingly, dreadfully, dreamfully, dyadically, fiducially, gladsomely, illaudably, judicially, lamentedly, manifoldly, medievally, playfields, pleadingly, polydactyl, polyhedral, prodigally, remedially, residually, sluggardly, suicidally, toroidally, unladylike.

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