Difference between Dally and Dawdle

What is the difference between Dally and Dawdle?

Dally as a verb is to waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle. while Dawdle as a verb is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.

Dally

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle. To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (cf dalliance) To delay unnecessarily; to while away. To wrap the rope around the saddle horn after roping an animal.

Dawdle

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.To spend time without haste or purpose.To move or walk lackadaisically.

We hope you now know whether to use Dally or Dawdle in your sentence.

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