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Dilly-dally   /dˈɪli-dˈæli/   Listen
Dilly-dally

verb
1.
Postpone doing what one should be doing.  Synonyms: dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall.





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... understood (and as easily practiced as understood) direction as to what to do by way of preparation for the act of coitus is: do as lovers do when they are "courting." And everybody knows what that is! And note this—that nobody ever hurries when they are courting! They delay, they protract, they dilly-dally, they "fool around," they pet each other in all sorts of possible and impossible ways. They kiss each other—"long and passionate kisses, they again and again give and receive"—they hug each other, nestle into each ...
— Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living • H.W. Long
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