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dally
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dæli/
- Rhymes: -æli
Etymology 1
From Middle English dalyen, from Anglo-Norman delaier.
Verb
dally (third-person singular simple present dallies, present participle dallying, simple past and past participle dallied)
- To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
- Synonyms: dawdle, dilly-dally; see also Thesaurus:loiter
- (transitive, intransitive) To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
- Synonyms: feel up, grope, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle
- To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
- Synonym: kill time
Translations
Etymology 2
Possibly from Spanish dale la vuelta (“twist it around”) by law of Hobson-Jobson, from dale + la + vuelta.
Noun
dally (plural dallies)
- Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
Verb
dally (third-person singular simple present dallies, present participle dallying, simple past and past participle dallied)
- 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
Anagrams
- d'y'all, y'all'd
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coquet
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?k.?t/
Noun
coquet (plural coquets)
- A flirtatious female; a coquette.
- (obsolete) A flirtatious male.
Translations
Verb
coquet (third-person singular simple present coquets, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)
- To act as a flirt or coquet.
- To waste time; to dally.
- To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on.
- November 26, 1725, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope
- You [are] coquetting a maid of honour.
- November 26, 1725, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope
Derived terms
- coquettish
Translations
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko??k?t/
- Hyphenation: co?quet
- Rhymes: -?t
Adjective
coquet (comparative coquetter, superlative coquetst)
- Superseded spelling of koket.
Usage notes
- The spelling coquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.
Inflection
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.k?/
Adjective
coquet (feminine singular coquette, masculine plural coquets, feminine plural coquettes)
- vain, conscious of one's appearance
- sweet, cute, charming
Derived terms
- coquetterie
Descendants
- ? Afrikaans: koket
- ? Dutch: koket
- ? German: kokett
- ? Thai: ??????
Further reading
- “coquet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
coquet
- third-person singular future active indicative of coqu?
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