| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Dally.[Websters]
2. To be retarded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have delayed or lagged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be deferred. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have larked or joked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be mashed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have fooled or doodled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have dawdled, pottered, sauntered or lingered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have disported or sported. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have enjoyed or rejoiced.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb dally.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dally) | 1. Behave carelessly or indifferently.[Wordnet]. 2. Waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!".[Wordnet]. 3. Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions.[Wordnet]. 4. Consider not very seriously.[Wordnet]. 5. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.[Websters]. 6. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.[Websters]. 7. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: dallying, dallied, dallies, dallier, dalliers, dallyingly and dalliedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DALLIED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dally
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] Literally, to delay; to linger; to wait. Hence.. | 2: [Verb] To trifle; to lose time in idleness and trifles; to amuse one's self with idle play. It is madness to dally any longer. Calamy.. | 3: [Verb] To toy and wanton, as man and woman; to interchange caresses; to fondle.. | 4: [Verb] To sport; to play. She dallies with the wind. Shak.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping. 1947 - Bruce Kiskaddon, Rhymes and Ranches What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally. (references) | 2: [Verb] To delay unnecessarily; to while away. (references) | 3: [Verb] To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (cf dalliance). (references) | 4: [Verb] To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. (references) | 5: [Verb] To wrap the rope around the saddle horn after roping an animal. 2003 - Jameson Parker, An Accidental Cowboy, page 89 The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: dally
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Dally Duncan | Dally Duncan managed Luton Town F.C. from 1947 to 1958. He then managed Blackburn Rovers for two seasons, helping them to the FA Cup final in 1960. (references) | ||
| Dally in the Alley | The Dally in the Alley is an annual street festival observed the Saturday after Labor Day weekend. (references) | ||
| Dally M Awards 2004 | The 2004 Dally M Awards were presented on Tuesday 7 September 2004 at the Sydney Town Hall in Sydney and broadcast on Fox Sports. Warren Smith presided as Master of Ceremonies. (references) | ||
| Dally Randriantefy | Dally Randriantefy is a professional female tennis player from Madagascar. (references) | ||
| Don't Dilly Dally on the Way | Dont Dilly Dally On The Way is the first line of the chorus of the song My Old Man (said follow the van) http://ingeb.org/songs/myoldman.html, a song which was part of the repertoire of Marie Lloyd. The song was written by Fred W. Leigh and Charles Collins. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Topics by Level of Interest: dally | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Dally Messenger | 40 | Ann Dally | 4 | |
| List of Dally M Awards Winners | 19 | Clarence Madison Dally | 5 | |
| Dally Duncan | 16 | Dally Duncan | 16 | |
| Dally M Awards 2006 | 12 | Dally in the Alley | 3 | |
| Dally M Medal | 11 | Dally M Awards | 4 | |
| Dally M Awards 2007 | 11 | Dally M Awards 2004 | 7 | |
| Dally M Awards 2005 | 10 | Dally M Awards 2005 | 10 | |
| Dally M Awards 2004 | 7 | Dally M Awards 2006 | 12 | |
| William James Dally | 6 | Dally M Awards 2007 | 11 | |
| Dally Randriantefy | 5 | Dally M Medal | 11 | |
| Clarence Madison Dally | 5 | Dally Messenger | 40 | |
| Dally M Awards | 4 | Dally O'Brien | 4 | |
| Ann Dally | 4 | Dally Randriantefy | 5 | |
| Dally O'Brien | 4 | List of Dally M Awards Winners | 19 | |
| Dally in the Alley | 3 | William Dally (rower) | 3 | |
| William Dally (rower) | 3 | William James Dally | 6 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
