dallying
Meaning of dallying
verb, gerund or present participle
- act or move slowly.
she'd dallied upstairs long enough to put on a little make-up
- have a casual romantic or sexual liaison with.
he should stop dallying with film stars
Middle English: from Old French dalier ‘to chat’, of unknown origin.
Information about dallying
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of dallying
dal-ly-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- dallying is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
dallying synonyms
Meaning waste time; be slow:
Meaning be late or slow; loiter:
Meaning walk slowly and with no apparent purpose; dawdle:
Meaning stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave:
Meaning fail to keep up with another or others in movement or development:
Meaning draw or be drawn along behind someone or something:
Meaning (of an irregular group of people) move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front:
Meaning walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace:
Meaning walk doggedly and slowly with heavy steps:
Meaning walk slowly and with heavy steps, typically because of exhaustion or harsh conditions:
Meaning (of a river or road) follow a winding course:
Meaning move passively, aimlessly, or involuntarily into a certain situation or condition:
Meaning walk wearily or reluctantly over a long distance:
Meaning like or covered with tar:
Meaning treat without seriousness or respect:
Meaning move or handle (an object) absent-mindedly or nervously:
Meaning engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose:
Meaning behave as though sexually attracted to someone, but playfully rather than with serious intentions:
Meaning attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way:
Meaning (of a man) readily or frequently enter into casual sexual relationships with women:
Meaning (of a man) engage in numerous casual sexual affairs with women:
dallying antonyms
Meaning move or act with great haste:
Anagrams of dallying
Words that rhyme with dallying
betra'ying, Maying, abraying, affraying, alaying, allaying, apaying, appaying, arraying, assaying, baying, belaying, bendaying, beraying, betraying, bewraying, bioassaying, braying, bricklaying, cardplaying, causewaying, claying, daying, decaying, deejaying, defraying, delaying, denaying, deraying, disarraying, dismaying, displaying, doomsaying, downplaying, draying, effraying, embaying, endplaying, essaying, estraying, faying, flaying, foraying, forelaying, foresaying, forraying, forsaying, fraying, gainsaying, gatewaying
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