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DILLY-DALLY
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Irregular inflected form: dilly-dallied
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Postpone doing what one should be doing
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
