dally
verb (used without object)
to waste time; loiter; delay.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Dost think I am dallying with thee, friend, about a thickness more or less of cloth!
From The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper