Definition of "dilly-dallies" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dilly-dally. (verb)

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• "Yet, Bush insists on an open-ended commitment in Iraq, as our armed forces get shot at while their Parliament dilly-dallies, and contemplates a long summer vacation."
• "The compensation related to controversial conversions of mining rights which have basically thrown local small-scale and artesanal miners out of their previous mine workings to make way for industrial-scale transnational corporations which are themselves in a state of paralysis while the central government dilly-dallies on final clearances to begin mining operations."
• "Alf, I've heard fellows say (and they was men that had had experience with women, too) -- I've heard 'em say that the chap that dilly-dallies with a woman, and always acts as sweet as pie, never makes no headway."