EGAVE

dally

About 0.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
  2. verb To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
  3. verb To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
  4. noun Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
  5. verb 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
  6. noun Alternative form of dolly (“offering of fruit or flowers”).

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Word family

dallied dallier dalliers dallies dallying

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