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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
shillyshally is a verb and noun meaning "be uncertain and vague". It carries 3 recorded senses.
be uncertain and vague
postpone doing what one should be doing
“He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days”
the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time
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 shillyshally come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.