1. Waste time
   "Get busy — don't dally!";
   - dawdle
    
2. Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
   "He was known to dally with several women at the party";
   - chat up [informal], flirt, coquet [rare], romance, mash [archaic]
    
3. Consider not very seriously
   "He is dallying with her";
   - trifle, play
    
4. Deal with something casually or playfully rather than seriously
   "they dallyd with the idea of moving to Florida";
   - play, toy, flirt

Derived forms: dallies, dallied, dallying

Type of: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, consider, deport, do, look at, move, speak, take, talk

Encyclopedia: Dally, William