Definition of dallies Dallies
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What does dallies mean?
Wiktionary 
- dallies (Noun)
Plural of dally.
Part of speech
🔤- dallies, verb, present, 3rd person singular of dally (infinitive).
WordNet
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| dally - behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection" | ||
| toy, play, flirt | ||
| act, move behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" | ||
| dally - waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" | ||
| dawdle | ||
| behave, act, do behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times" | ||
| dally - consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" | ||
| trifle, play | ||
| look at, consider, deal, take regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem; "Please consider your family" | ||
| flirt, toy, dally, play manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate" | ||
| dally - talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" | ||
| chat up, flirt, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash | ||
| speak, talk use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" | ||
| wanton behave extremely cruelly and brutally | ||
| vamp provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots" | ||
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Wiktionary
- dally (Noun)
Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn , used to stop animals in roping. - dally (Verb)
To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle. - dally (Verb)
To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. - dally (Verb)
To delay unnecessarily; to while away . - dally (Verb)
To wind the lasso rope around the saddle pummel after the roping of an animal.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- dally (v. i.)
To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. - dally (v. i.)
To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. - dally (v. t.)
To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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dally
dal′i, v.i. to lose time by idleness or trifling: to play: to exchange caresses:—pa.p. dall′ied.—ns. Dall′iance, dallying, toying, or trifling: interchange of embraces: delay; Dall′ier, a trifler. [M. E. dalien, to play; prob. from A.S. dweligan, to err; cf. Ice. dvala, to delay, Dut. dwalen, to err; prob. conn. with dwell.]
Part of speech
🔤- dally, verb, present, 1st person singular of dally (infinitive).
- dally, verb (infinitive).
