Definition of "dallied" [dallied]

• Simple past tense and past participle of dally. (verb)

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• "If you followed any individual butterfly along its meandering course it slowed, dallied and looped around every blossom and nectar source in sight, and yet never once landed; in truth, they kept flying for so long it was hard to believe that the microgram of wing muscle on these insects could sustain such marathon efforts."
• "I could have otherwise dallied around for years, interviewing cheesemakers on a sort of casual offhand basis and never really pulled it all together."
• "Also have drug behind a horse with a rope dallied around the saddle horn, but no more than a quarter mile or so."