Dally

Chaykhana is a Central Asian teahouse where men dally over a cup of tea, share traditional dishes like plov, and discuss current affairs.

I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my power / To favour you; but 'tis my father's cause, / Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally.

[…] after we by our presumptuous delays have put off God, and dallied with his grace; […]

[…] we have trifled too long already about a matter of such infinite moment, it is perfect Madness to dally any longer. […]

Not dallying with a Brace of Curtizans,

2024, The November Nethack Tournament achievements Dally with a foocubus

What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally.

The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch.

We have known Mazagon and long-pod Beans to be thrown out of a dally, because they were full of seed!

The New Zealand wine industry and those who consume the wine it produces owe a huge debt of gratitude to the "Dallies" – the Croatians, and others from that part of eastern Europe who came here in the early 1900s and brought with them a passion for growing, making and drinking wine.