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Date:
1700-1800
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dally
dilly-dally
verb
dil‧ly-dal‧ly
past tense and past participle
dilly-dallied
, present participle
dilly-dallying
, third person singular
dilly-dallies
[
intransitive
]
to waste time, because you cannot decide about something
:
Don't dilly-dally, just get on with it!
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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