Usually means: Wasting time, often by loitering.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. dallying: Merriam-Webster
  2. dallying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dallying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dallying: Vocabulary.com
  5. dallying: Wordnik
  6. dallying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dallying: Wiktionary
  8. Dallying, dallying: Dictionary.com
  9. dallying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Dallying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Dallying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. dallying: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dallying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dallying: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dallying: Idioms

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▸ noun:  dalliance

Similar:
flirt, chat up, coquet, coquette, toy, philander, play, linger, tarry, romance, more...

Opposite:
hurrying, hastening, rushing, speeding up, accelerating

Types:
flirtation, amorousness, coquetry, courtship, gallantry, more...

Phrases:
dilly dallying, more...

Adjectives:
dilly, more, such, further, amorous, luxurious, long, unfortunate, uncertain, mere, romantic

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Similar:
flirt, chat up, coquet, coquette, toy, philander, play, linger, tarry, romance, more...

Opposite:
hurrying, hastening, rushing, speeding up, accelerating

Types:
flirtation, amorousness, coquetry, courtship, gallantry, more...

Phrases:
dilly dallying, more...

Adjectives:
dilly, more, such, further, amorous, luxurious, long, unfortunate, uncertain, mere, romantic



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