dally

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
    — What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally.
  2. Alternative form of dolly (“offering of fruit or flowers”). India,alt-of,alternative
    — We have known Mazagon and long-pod Beans to be thrown out of a dally, because they were full of seed!
动词 v.
  1. To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
    — 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.
  2. To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
    — The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch.
  3. To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet ambitransitive
    — Not dallying with a Brace of Curtizans, / But meditating with two deepe Diuines:
  4. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

词形变化

dallies present,singular,third-person dallying participle,present dallied participle,past dallied past dallies plural dallies present,singular,third-person dallying participle,present dallied participle,past dallied past dallies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dallier dallyingly dilly-dally undallying

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dalien, from Anglo-Norman delaier. Doublet of delay.
词源 2
Possibly from Spanish dale vuelta (“twist it around”) by law of Hobson-Jobson, from dale + la + vuelta.
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