Search Result for "dally": 
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (4)

1. behave carelessly or indifferently;
- Example: "Play about with a young girl's affection"
[syn: dally, toy, play, flirt]

2. waste time;
- Example: "Get busy--don't dally!"
[syn: dally, dawdle]

3. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions;
- Example: "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"
- Example: "My husband never flirts with other women"
[syn: chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash]

4. consider not very seriously;
- Example: "He is trifling with her"
- Example: "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"
[syn: dally, trifle, play]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dally \Dal"ly\, v. t. To delay unnecessarily; to while away. [1913 Webster] Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dally v 1: behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection" [syn: dally, toy, play, flirt] 2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally, dawdle] 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" [syn: chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash] 4: consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" [syn: dally, trifle, play]