English-Thai Dictionary

dally

VI ชักช้า  เสียเวลา  อืดอาด  loiter trifle chak-cha

 

dally

VI ทำเล่นๆ  หยอกล้อ  flirt tease trifle tam-lan-lan

 

dally

VT ชักช้า  เสียเวลา  อืดอาด  loiter idle chak-cha

 

dally over

PHRV เสียเวลา กับ  ปล่อย เวลา ให้ เสีย ไป กับ  dawdle over sia-we-la-kab

 

dally with

PHRV คิด เล่นๆ เรื่อง  play with toy with trifle with kid-len-len-rueang

 

dally with

PHRV ทำ เป็น ล้อเล่น (เรื่อง ความรัก  กับ (เพศตรงข้าม  ทำ เจ้าชู้ กับ  เกี้ยว เล่น กับ  flirt with tam-pen-lor-len

 

dally with

PHRV ทำเล่นๆ  ไม่ จริงจัง  tam-lan-lan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DALLY

v.i. 1. Literally, to delay; to linger; to wait. Hence.
2. To trifle; to lose time in idleness and trifles; to amuse one's self with idle play.
It is madness to dally any longer. Calamy.
3. To toy and wanton, as man and woman; to interchange caresses; to fondle.
4. To sport; to play.
She dallies with the wind. Shak.

 

DALLY

v.t.To delay; to defer; to put off; to amuse till a proper opportunity; as, to dally off the time.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DALLY

Dal "ly, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dallied; p. pr. & vb. n. Dallying.] Etym: [OE. , dailien; cf. Icel. pylja to talk, G. dallen, dalen, dahlen, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol foolish, E. dull. ]

 

1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. Calamy. We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. Barrow.

 

2. To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport. Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. Shak. Our aerie. .. dallies with the wind. Shak.

 

DALLY

DALLY Dal "ly, v. t.

 

Defn: To delay unnecessarily; to while away. Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. Knolles.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dally

dal ly |ˈdalē ˈdæli | ▶verb ( dallies, dallying, dallied ) [ no obj. ] 1 act or move slowly: workers were loafing, dallying, or goofing off. 2 have a casual romantic or sexual liaison with someone: he should stop dallying with movie stars. • show a casual interest in something, without committing oneself seriously: the company has been dallying with the idea of opening a new office. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French dalier ‘to chat ’ (commonly used in Anglo-Norman French ), of unknown origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

dally

dally |ˈdali | ▶verb ( dallies, dallying, dallied ) [ no obj. ] 1 act or move slowly: she'd dallied upstairs long enough to put on a little make-up. 2 (dally with ) have a casual romantic or sexual liaison with: he should stop dallying with film stars. • show a casual interest in: the company was dallying with the idea of opening a new office. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French dalier ‘to chat ’, of unknown origin.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dally

dally verb 1 don't dally on the way to work: dawdle, delay, loiter, linger, waste time; lag, trail, straggle, fall behind; amble, meander, drift; informal dilly-dally; archaic tarry. ANTONYMS hurry. 2 he likes dallying with film stars: trifle, toy, amuse oneself, flirt, play fast and loose, philander, carry on, play around. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See loiter . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dally

dally verb 1 there's no time to dally on the way to work: dawdle, delay, loiter, linger, waste time, kill time, take one's time, while away time; lag, trail, straggle, fall behind; amble, plod, trudge, meander, drift; informal dilly-dally; archaic or literary tarry. ANTONYMS hurry. 2 he should stop dallying with film stars: trifle, toy, play, amuse oneself, flirt, play fast and loose, tinker, philander, womanize, carry on; informal play around, mess about /around.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dally

dal ly /dǽli /動詞 -lies ; -lied ; ～ing 自動詞 1 ｟文 ｠ぐずぐずする, だらだらする .2 ｟文 ｠ «…と » 戯れる, いちゃつく (flirt ) «with » .3 【考えなどを 】軽く考えてみる, もてあそぶ «with » .他動詞 〈時間 〉をだらだらと過ごす (away ).