You're late! Sheesh, dilly-dally dilly-dally ...
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Dilly-dally
//ˈdɪliˌdæli//
Synonyms for "dilly-dally" (88 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (44)
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24 translations across 14 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 磨蹭 verb (to waste time)
Finnish
4 entries- hengailla verb (to waste time)
- luumuilla verb (to waste time)
- puuhastella verb (to waste time)
- velttoilla verb (to waste time)
French
1 entries- procrastiner verb (to waste time)
German
2 entries- Zeit vertrödeln verb (to waste time)
- trödeln verb (to waste time)
Greek
1 entries- χασομερώ verb (to waste time)
Italian
2 entries- gingillarsi verb (to waste time)
- procrastinare verb (to waste time)
Latin
1 entries- mūgīnor verb (to waste time)
Macedonian
1 entries- се колеба verb (to waste time)
Māori
2 entries- hāmure verb (to waste time)
- tonanawe verb (to waste time)
Polish
2 entries- guzdrać się verb (to waste time)
- ociągać się verb (to waste time)
Portuguese
1 entries- enrolar verb (to waste time)
Russian
3 entries- безде́льничать verb (to waste time)
- прохлажда́ться verb (to waste time)
- тра́тить вре́мя впусту́ю verb (to waste time)
Spanish
2 entries- pelotearse verb (to waste time)
- procrastinar verb (to waste time)
Swedish
1 entries- prokrastinera verb (to waste time)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Let's get going! We have no time to dilly-dally.
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Don't dilly-dally.
Source: tatoeba (8876961)
It is something to have been an old soldier, but more still to have been a doctor. There is no time to dilly-dally in our work.
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