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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dally \dal"ly\ da^l"ly^, v. i. imp.  p. p. dallied
   da^l"li^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
see also:
dallied dallying 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
dallied
     see dally
see also:
dally 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
dally
     v 1: behave carelessly or indifferently; "play about with a young
          girl's affection" syn: toy, play, flirt
     2: waste time; "get busy--don't dally" syn: 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,
         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: trifle,
         play
     also: dallied
see also:
toy play flirt dawdle chat up butterfly 
coquet coquette romance philander mash 
trifle dallied 

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