Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that is remarkable or extraordinary, as in size or quality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
diligence . - noun Same as daffodil, daffodilly.
- noun A small sapotaceous tree, Mimusops Sieberi, specifically called the wild dilly, found on the Florida keys and in the West Indies. Its wood is very heavy and hard, of a dark-brown color, and susceptible of a beautiful polish.
- noun A bag woven of grasses or of fur twisted into cord; a small bag of any material.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of stagecoach.
- noun something remarkable, highly unusual, or exceptionally effective.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
redolent ofdill (the spice) - noun Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual.
- noun dated A kind of
stagecoach .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I think you mean it's a "dilly" of an article, rather than a "ditty" of an article.
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I have no time to describe to you what this plan was except to say that it was a "dilly", but when I hear complaints that these very expensive Royal Commission reports are almost always pigeon-holed I ask myself what else could be done with the "Solution" proposed by the last Royal Commissioner to sit in judgment on Ontario's forests.
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Any kind of dilly-dallying, that’s the government.
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Sooner or later, we explode with it — in the form of anger toward our spouse, who comes dilly-dallying in after a day of adult interaction, interaction with people WHO WILL LISTEN.
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It's helped me hit the brakes in time a few times when it'd have turned out otherwise if I'd been dilly dallying along.
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Anybody who dilly dallies on non-communicable diseases will be forced to act when the situation is out of control.
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Stop the dilly-dallying and do something about the problem. statatheleft says:
Matthew Yglesias » Obstructionism from Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) Boosting Lord’s Resistance Army 2010
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You've read hints of it on the blog for months now, and I even asked for story ideas and woo hoo, I got a dilly from one of you.
The next Jack Fleming story is..... p_n_elrod 2009
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Let's not dilly-dally, let's get straight on into the funny, shall we?
Friday Pix 01flux 2009
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It's helped me hit the brakes in time a few times when it'd have turned out otherwise if I'd been dilly dallying along.
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