Definition of dilly-dally Dilly-dally
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What does dilly-dally mean?
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| dilly-dally - postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" | ||
| procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dillydally | ||
| delay cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform" | ||
| procrastinate postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- dilly-dally (Verb)
To dawdle; to waste time; to procrastinate.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- dilly-dally (v. i.)
To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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dilly-dally
dil′i-dal′i, v.i. to loiter, trifle. [A kind of reduplication of dally. Cf. Shilly-shally.]
