Dally

Quick meaning: Dally is a verb meaning To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.

Meaning

To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
2. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
3. Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
4. (India) Alternative form of dolly (“offering of fruit or flowers”).
5. To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal

Example Sentences

Not dallying with a Brace of Curtizans,

The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch.

2024, The November Nethack Tournament achievements Dally with a foocubus

What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally.

Word Forms

• dallies
• dallying
• dallied

Synonyms for dally

Depending on context, synonyms include dawdle, dilly-dally, bludge, cabbage, diddle, dretch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include play, tarry, toy, linger, coquet, coquette.

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