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say it: DIL-ee-dal-ee
dillydally is a verb meaning "postpone doing what one should be doing". It is pronounced /ˈdɪliˈdæli/ — DIL-ee-dal-ee. It carries one recorded sense.
postpone doing what one should be doing
“He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dillydally come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.