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Verb: dally  da-lee
  1. Behave carelessly or indifferently
    "dally about with a young girl's affection";
    - toy, play, flirt
     
  2. Waste time
    "Get busy--don't dally!";
    - dawdle
     
  3. Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
    - chat up [Brit, informal], flirt, coquet [rare], romance, philander, mash [archaic]
     
  4. Consider not very seriously
    "He is dallying with her";
    - trifle, play

Derived forms: dallying, dallies, dallied

Type of: act, behave, consider, do, look at, move, speak, take, talk

Encyclopedia: Dally, William