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DILLY-DALLY

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Irregular inflected form: dilly-dallied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Postpone doing what one should be doingplay

Example:

He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days

Synonyms:

dilly-dally; dillydally; drag one's feet; drag one's heels; procrastinate; shillyshally; stall

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "dilly-dally" is one way to...):

delay (act later than planned, scheduled, or required)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dilly-dally"):

procrastinate (postpone or delay needlessly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

They dilly-dally the cape

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