- To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or
in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to
trifle. - To interchange caresses, especially with one of the
opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
2 . Dally
[ v. t.]
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Meaning of 'dally' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . dally
[ v]
Meaning (1): - waste time
Example in sentence:
Get busy--don't dally!
Meaning (2): - consider not very seriously
Example in sentence:
He is trifling with her;
She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania
Meaning (3): - talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
Example in sentence:
My husband never flirts with other women;
The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries