Friday, May 18, 2007

WORD OF THE DAY

Dilly-Dally

Function: verb (no object)

Inflected forms:
dilly-dallies; dilly-dallied; dilly-dallying

Status: informal

Meaning: to waste time
e.g. "We need to stop dilly-dallying (dawdling, fooling around) and get to work."

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