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dallyverb to engage in activity for amusementhe spent his college years dallying, seemingly determined to acquire as little knowledge as possible disport, frolic, play, recreate, rollick, skylark, sport, toy cavort, frisk, gambol, rompdabble, trifleamuse, divert, entertaindelight, pleasedabble, fiddle (around), mess around, putter (around)bum (around), dawdle, goldbrick, hang, hang about(British), idle, loaf, lounge (around or about), relax, rest, screw around, slack (off)jest, joke, tease drudge, labor, plod, plug (away), slave, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, toil, work to move or act slowlydon't dally on the way to the interview crawl, creep, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, drag, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag(also lallygag), mope, poke, shilly-shally, tarry fiddle (around), fool around, mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), triflehang (around or out), idle, loaf, loll, loungeamble, ease, inch, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stagger, strolldecelerate, slow (down or up)filibuster, procrastinate, stall, temporize drag one's feet(also drag one's heels), drop behind, fall behind, hang fire, mark time, take one's time barrel, bolt, career, course, dash, fly, hasten, hotfoot (it), hurry, race, rip, rocket, run, rush, scoot, scud, scurry, speed, tear, whirl, whisk, whiz(or whizz), zip bowl, breeze, dart, hump, hurtle, hustle, scramble, stampedegallop, jog, run, sprint, trotaccelerate, quicken, speed (up)catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake to show a sexual attraction for someone just for funshe spent the summer dallying with a guy renting the neighboring beach house coquet(or coquette), flirt, frivol, mess around, toy, trifle vampcourt, mash, woojosh, kid, put on, razz, rib, teasefool, lead on, string alongmanipulate, play (with) to spend time doing nothingI kept dallying at my desk until I couldn't put off doing my work any longer bum, chill, dawdle, dillydally, drone, footle, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), hang about(British), idle, kick around, kick back, laze, lazy, loaf, loll, lounge, veg out fiddle (around), fool, mess, monkey, muck, piddle, play, potter (around), putter (around), trifledoze, estivate(also aestivate), hibernatelag, linger, loiter, poke, relax, rest, tarryamble, mosey, saunter, stroll, swanfurlough, goldbrick, malinger, truant kill time, twiddle one's thumbs drudge, grind, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg, plod, plow, plug, slave, sweat, toil, travail, workapply, buckle (down)exert, put out trifle, toy, dally, flirt, coquet mean to deal with or act toward without serious purpose.trifle may imply playfulness, unconcern, indulgent contempt.to trifle with a lover's feelings toy implies acting without full attention or serious exertion of one's powers.a political novice toying with great issues dally suggests indulging in thoughts or plans merely as an amusement.dallying with the idea of building a boat someday flirt implies an interest or attention that soon passes to another object.flirted with one fashionable ism after another coquet implies attracting interest or admiration without serious intention.companies that coquet with environmentalism solely for public relations in the 15th century |