'Dally' definitions:
Definition of 'dally'
From: WordNet
verb
Behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection" [syn: dally, toy, play, flirt]
verb
Waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally, dawdle]
verb
Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" [syn: chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash]
verb
Definition of 'Dally'
From: GCIDE
- Dally \Dal"ly\, v. t. To delay unnecessarily; to while away. [1913 Webster]
- Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dally'
From: GCIDE
- Dally \Dal"ly\ (d[a^]l"l[y^]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dallied (d[a^]l"l[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Dallying.] [OE. dalien, dailien; cf. Icel. pylja to talk, G. dallen, dalen, dahlen, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol foolish, E. dull.]
- 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. [1913 Webster]
- We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. --Calamy. [1913 Webster]
- We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. --Barrow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. [1913 Webster]
- Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dally'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abide,
- await,
- bide,
- bide the issue,
- bill and coo,
- caress,
- copulate,
- coquet,
- cosset,
- cuddle,
- dabble,
- dally away,
- dandle,
- dawdle,
- delay,
- diddle,
- diddle away,
- dillydally,
- doodle,
- drag,
- dribble away,
- drivel away,
- falter,
- fiddle,
- fiddle with,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fidget with,
- finger with,
- flag,
- flirt,
- fondle,
- fool,
- fool around,
- fool away,
- fool with,
- fribble,
- fritter away,
- frivol,
- frolic,
- gambol,
- goof off,
- halt,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hold everything,
- hold on,
- hold your horses,
- horse around,
- idle,
- idle away,
- jerk off,
- kid around,
- lag,
- lead on,
- linger,
- loiter,
- lollygag,
- make love,
- make out,
- mark time,
- mess around,
- monkey,
- monkey around,
- muddle away,
- neck,
- pet,
- piddle,
- piss away,
- play,
- play around,
- play with,
- poke,
- potter,
- potter away,
- procrastinate,
- put off,
- putter,
- rollick,
- romp,
- shilly-shally,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- smatter,
- smooch,
- spoon,
- sport,
- stay,
- stay up,
- stick around,
- string along,
- sweet-talk,
- take time,
- tarry,
- tinker,
- toy,
- toy with,
- trail,
- trifle,
- trifle away,
- twiddle,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- wanton,
- waste time,
- while away,
- whisper sweet nothings