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Take one's time
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dally
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dally (division abnormally delayed) is the name of a gene that encodes a HS-modified-protein found in the fruit fly ( Drosophila melanogaster ). The protein has to be processed after being codified, and in its mature form it is composed by 626 amino acids, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "to talk, converse," possibly from Anglo-French dalier "to amuse oneself," which is of uncertain origin. Sense of "waste time" emerged by late 14c. Related: Dallied ; dallying .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dally \Dal"ly\, v. t. To delay unnecessarily; to while away. Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. --Knolles. [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of dally.
You dallied for a day or two at Arles, getting this woman to write a lying letter to your wife saying that you were down with fever.
Frederick to dally with his mistress of the moment while Bute took care of the Princess.
Her own husband was only nominally interested in sex and fell asleep after ejaculation whereas Nordstrom was a princely dallier who had obviously been well trained by his wife.
Pan Xo, despondent over the loss of his illicit lover to the arms of another man, took his own life by slashing open his own veins, but not before dispatching his lover and her dallier in a more, shall we say, dramatic fashion.
We dallied there briefly, then passed the library and the huge stadium and finally made it to the monstrous indoor dojo where the Cuban judo team was training.
Victoria, the little man dallied at his lunch, which was evidently filet of shoe sole, but abandoned it after a few minutes.
I have taken one anally and four orally, but none has been where your fingers dally.
She simply thought she was stealing a beau from some other girl, and he never dreamt he was dallying with Neches River royalty.
He knew that Mina derived a clear satisfaction from knowing that it was his man-thing, and he thought she ought not let Coke Rymer dally with it.
I managed to ask as the Soc I was fighting leaped on me and we rolled near Dally.
Now that she did not need to hold the mannikin close to her body and was free to dally if she wanted, she had hoped to spend the entire day with her Henri and what did he do?
Twenty years he dallied there between conjugial love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.
Iris romped around Caracas and played with her computer projections or whatever the hell they were and sat in seminars gabbing nonsense and, for all he knew, dallied with the male students of many lands.
Danaet, the factor would lecture her about dallying with a dockhand until the waves ran backwards.
The knight also bore, secured to his saddle, with one end resting on his stirrup, the long steel-headed lance, his own proper weapon, which, as he rode, projected backwards, and displayed its little pennoncelle, to dally with the faint breeze, or drop in the dead calm.