Crossword clues for dallied
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dally \Dal"ly\ (d[a^]l"l[y^]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dallied (d[a^]l"l[i^]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.]
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To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.
--Calamy.We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
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To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
--Shak.Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastdally)
WordNet
See dally
v. behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection" [syn: toy, play, flirt]
waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dawdle]
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]
consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" [syn: trifle, play]
[also: dallied]
Usage examples of "dallied".
The LEO guard made certain that no known member of the media dallied on the floor to pester the victim.
Never let it be said that we dallied in transporting them to their desired location.
There was an aura of courage about Donalla that Killa certainly respected and she hoped that her stupid, bias-ridden parents hadn't dallied away her last hope of life.
If she kept herself busy, watching her feet on the cindery paths, even doing a bit of pattern watching, with Sothi or Asramantal to pull her out if she dallied too long, she didn't have to think about installing the black in Big Hungry.
For years I dallied, and only slowly did I learn to love him truly-and only when he died did I realize how deep that love had grown.
For years I dallied, and only slowly did I learn to love him truly—and only when he died did I realize how deep that love had grown.
He'd never dallied with anyone so young, so untouched—so damned innocent—before.
He was paying for his sins in having dallied with her, teased her, enjoyed her.
Hornblower's imagination dallied with the idea of a river four hundred miles long, and with the prospect of descending it from source to mouth in the depth of winter.