dally
see also: Dally
Pronunciation Verb
Dally
Proper noun Noun
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see also: Dally
Pronunciation Verb
dally (dallies, present participle dallying; past and past participle dallied)
- To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
- (ambitransitive) To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
- (to waste time) dawdle, dilly-dally; see also Thesaurus:loiter
- (to caress) feel up, grope, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle
- (delay unnecessarily) kill time
- French: procrastiner, lambiner, lanterner, traîner
- German: tändeln, trödeln
- Italian: trastullarsi
- Russian: тра́тить вре́мя впусту́ю
- French: flirter
- Russian: флиртова́ть
dally (plural dallies)
- Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
dally (dallies, present participle dallying; past and past participle dallied)
- To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
Dally
Proper noun Noun
- (colloquial New Zealand English) A New Zealand person of Croatian or other Balkan descent.
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