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What is the verb for dallying?

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dally
  1. To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
  2. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
  3. To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
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  5. Examples:
    1. “John can dally with a host of other women but never find in them the revelation of heavenly glory that he beholds after the most awkward kiss with the scholarly Lucy.”
      “Eddie and Denise travel to the Egyptian coastal village of Dahab, where they dally in the sun and sand.”
      “There we would dally through the long night hours until the tinny clock sounded Reveille.”
dallying
dallies
dallied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dally
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  3. Examples:
    1. “From the corner, the Colombian international seized on the ball unmarked at the far post but dallied enough to allow Edmondson a smart block.”
      “She'd promised the Dean that she would be at his office as soon as she got up, and she had already dallied enough as it was.”
      “In the past NY women might have dallied with a man in uniform, but wouldn't have pursued one.”
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