dally
IPA: dˈæɫi
noun
- Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
- A surname.
- (colloquial New Zealand English) A New Zealand person of Croatian or other Balkan descent.
- (India) Alternative form of dolly (“offering of fruit or flowers”) [(childish, colloquial) A doll.]
verb
- To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
- (transitive, intransitive) To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
- To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel of a western style saddle) after the roping of an animal
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Examples of "dally" in Sentences
- Gasnier won the Dally M Centre Of The Year.
- If you act dally, you act or move very slowly.
- Heidke was given the captaincy over Dally Messenger.
- He was awarded the Dally M coach of the year in 1985.
- Alan Wilson was named Dally M rookie of the year in 1987.
- He was the younger brother of league great Dally Messenger.
- Dally is recovering well and insists on going to the rumble.
- Also in 2009 he won the Dally M Medal for the NRL's player of the year.
- He was also in close contention for the Dally M Rookie of the Year Award.
- At the end of the 1988 season Backo was the Dally M front rower of the year.