While Tom puttered about with his ruffles and dalliance, a musket ball was flying towards his forehead.
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Dalliance
//ˈdæli.əns//
Synonyms for "dalliance" (76 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (38)
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13 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- губене на време noun (a wasting of time in idleness or trifles)
- флирт noun (playful flirtation)
Czech
4 entries- aférka noun (A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit)
- flirtování noun (playful flirtation)
- koketování noun (playful flirtation)
- laškování noun (playful flirtation)
Dutch
4 entries- flirt noun (playful flirtation)
- gelanterfanter noun (a wasting of time in idleness or trifles)
- tijdverlies noun (a wasting of time in idleness or trifles)
- verspilling noun (a wasting of time in idleness or trifles)
Finnish
4 entries- ajan tappaminen noun (a wasting of time in idleness or trifles)
- flirttailu noun (playful flirtation)
- flirtti noun (playful flirtation)
- hengailu noun (a wasting of time in idleness or trifles)
French
4 entries- baguenaudage noun (a wasting of time in idleness or trifles)
- conter fleurette noun (playful flirtation)
- coquetage noun (playful flirtation)
- flirt noun (playful flirtation)
German
4 entries- Flirt noun (playful flirtation)
- Liebesspiel noun (playful flirtation)
- Seitensprung noun (A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit)
- Trödelei noun (a wasting of time in idleness or trifles)
Greek
3 entries- ερωτοτροπία noun (playful flirtation)
- χαριεντισμός noun (playful flirtation)
- χασομέρι noun (a wasting of time in idleness or trifles)
Hungarian
4 entries- flört noun (playful flirtation)
- flörtölés noun (playful flirtation)
- kacérkodás noun (playful flirtation)
- kokettálás noun (playful flirtation)
Polish
2 entries- flirt noun (playful flirtation)
- zaloty noun (playful flirtation)
Portuguese
1 entries- paquera noun (playful flirtation)
Russian
4 entries- заи́грывание noun (playful flirtation)
- интрижка noun (A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit)
- коке́тство noun (playful flirtation)
- праздное времяпрепровожде́ние noun (a wasting of time in idleness or trifles)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mànran noun (playful flirtation)
Spanish
4 entries- amorío noun (A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit)
- coqueteo noun (playful flirtation)
- devaneo noun (A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit)
- flirteo noun (playful flirtation)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind),
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But, with a gesture, she put a period to this dalliance—one shouldn't palter so on an empty stomach, she might almost have said.
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Quite a few minutes would be spun out, for instance, at the smallish town of Chirk, but to me the dalliance was generally worthwhile, except in wet weather, because of the increasing beauty of the wooded hill scenery thereabouts.
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