Thursday, May 27, 2010

GWD: Dillydally

Another gnomish nonsense compound that I had overlooked, likely because I was dillydallying. They can strip out the hyphen, but the gnomish aesthetic remains intact...

dil·ly·dal·ly
Pronunciation: \ˈdi-lē-ˌda-lē\
Function: intransitive verb
Etymology: reduplication of dally
Date: 1741
: to waste time by loitering or delaying : dawdle

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