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Meaning of dally

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  dally
      v 1: behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a
           young girl's affection" [syn: {dally}, {toy}, {play},
           {flirt}]
      2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: {dally}, {dawdle}]
      3: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The
         guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband
         never flirts with other women" [syn: {chat up}, {flirt},
         {dally}, {butterfly}, {coquet}, {coquette}, {romance},
         {philander}, {mash}]
      4: consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She
         plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" [syn: {dally},
         {trifle}, {play}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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