dilly-dallies in English

verb

1

waste time through aimless wandering or indecision.

don't dilly-dally for too long

synonyms: waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry

verb

• waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry
• dillydally, procrastinate, drag one's feet, shillyshally, drag one's heels, stall

Use "dilly-dallies" in a sentence

1. One dilly beggar even dedicated hid to me.

2. But at least you've learned how to use "dilly-dally".

3. Don't dilly-dally; we need to go to the party right now.

4. My old man said "Foller the van, And don't dilly dally on the way".

5. Like Drawn to Life, another one of 5th Cell's games, players can dilly-dally in the game's startup menu.

6. Mother: Here, this should be enough. And don't dilly-dally on the way. I want you to come straight back.

7. There is no time to dilly-dally in our work. And so now I made up my mind instantly, and with no time lost returned to the shore, and jumped on board the jolly-boat.

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9. ‘I Boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer.’ ‘He is a trusted member of the CEO brotherhood, and he never met a military Boondoggle he wouldn't hug.’ ‘The Rangers are still paying the San Diego Padres for taking that Boondoggle off their hands.’

10. ‘I Boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer.’ ‘He is a trusted member of the CEO brotherhood, and he never met a military Boondoggle he wouldn't hug.’ ‘The Rangers are still paying the San Diego Padres for taking that Boondoggle off their hands.’

11. The two properties that characterize Ablaut reduplication in English (chit-chat, dilly-dally) are: (1) identical vowel quantity in the stressed syllabic peaks, (2) maximally distinct vowel qualities in the two halves, with [i] appearing most commonly to the left and a low vowel to the right.In addition, Ablaut reduplicatives are described as having a trochaic contour, yet there is a great deal