dally

1. v. i. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. Source: opted

2. v. i. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. Source: opted

3. v. t. To delay unnecessarily; to while away. Source: opted

4. v. behave carelessly or indifferently Source: wordnet

5. v. waste time Source: wordnet

6. v. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions Source: wordnet

7. v. consider not very seriously Source: wordnet

8. 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. To delay unnecessarily; to while away. Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles. Source: webster

9. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles. Source: adambom

10. v:100 v. behave carelessly or indifferently v. waste time v. consider not very seriously Source: ecdict

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