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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To waste time, especially in indecision; dawdle or vacillate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To loiter; delay; trifle.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to dawdle; to waste time; to procrastinate

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To loiter or trifle; to waste time.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. postpone doing what one should be doing
  2. v. postpone doing what one should be doing

Etymologies

  1. Reduplication of dally. (Wiktionary)
  2. Reduplication of dally. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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