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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To waste time, especially in indecision; dawdle or vacillate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To loiter; delay; trifle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To loiter or trifle; to waste time.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to dawdle; to waste time; to procrastinate

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb postpone doing what one should be doing
  • verb postpone doing what one should be doing

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Reduplication of dally.]

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Reduplication of dally.

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