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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:
\
ˈ
di-lē-
ˌ
da-lē\
Function:
intransitive verb
Etymology: reduplication of
dally
Date: 1741
:
to waste time by loitering or delaying
:
dawdle
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