Words at Play : Weird Rhyming Words
Definition:
: to act with unusual or improper slowness : to waste time by loitering or delay
About the Word:
Dillydallying is very similar to shilly-shallying, and the latter can be used to mean wasting time as well. But shilly-shally also has the meaning of being indecisive, or showing a lack of resolution.
Example:
"Because you don't dilly-dally, because you don't hang on to your wife's petticoats. Service before all!" — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (trans. by Nathan Haskell Dole), 1889
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