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    DILLY-DALLY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: dilly-dallied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Postpone doing what one should be doingplay

    Example:

    He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days

    Synonyms:

    dilly-dally; dillydally; drag one's feet; drag one's heels; procrastinate; shillyshally; stall

    Classified under:

    Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

    Hypernyms (to "dilly-dally" is one way to...):

    delay (act later than planned, scheduled, or required)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dilly-dally"):

    procrastinate (postpone or delay needlessly)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s

    Sentence example:

    They dilly-dally the cape

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