dally : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dally	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for dally
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dally v behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection" Synonym(s): dally, toy, play, flirt waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" Synonym(s): dally, dawdle talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" Synonym(s): chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" Synonym(s): dally, trifle, play
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dally \Dal"ly\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dallied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dallying}.] [OE. [?]alien, 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. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. --Calamy. We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. --Barrow. 2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. --Shak. Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dally \Dal"ly\, v. t. To delay unnecessarily; to while away. Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. --Knolles.