Dally
Dally (dal"ly) , intransitive verb
[Old English dalien, dailien; compare Icelandic pylja to talk, German dallen, dalen, dahlen, to trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or Anglo-Saxon dol foolish, English dull.]
1.
To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.
We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
2.
To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
Our aerie... dallies with the wind.
Dally , transitive verb
To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Dallying off the time with often skirmishes.