Meaning

5 senses
  1. Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.

  2. (Australia)A dilly bag.

  3. (dated)A kind of stagecoach.

  4. Synonym of dilly net

  5. (obsolete, slang)A night cart.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Time's almost up, why are you still dilly-dallying?

  2. Dilly-dallying the day away does not an artist make.

  3. Don't dilly-dally.

    deTrödel nicht! — Yorwba

  4. You're late! Sheesh, dilly-dally dilly-dally ...

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  5. Let's get going! We have no time to dilly-dally.

    deJetzt aber los! Wir haben keine Zeit Sperenzchen zu machen. — Dejo

Origin

Contracted from diligence.

Contracted from diligence.

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Forms

plural: dillies
Singulardilly
Pluraldillies

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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