dally
verb (used without object)
to waste time; loiter; delay.
dallier
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a word derived from
dally.
Example Sentences
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Believe me, the Britisher is a mere dallier in comparison with his American golfing cousin.
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
You see by my brusque ways, my bluntness, that I have been no dallier in drawing-rooms, no holder of lady’s silk.
From By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn
You know what he says—'The aesthete is, after all, only a dallier.
From The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Finally the last dallier had his say, and, after an exchange of cordial good nights, departed.
From A Pirate of Parts by Richard Neville
