Dally vs Rally - What's the difference?
dally | rally |
To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
* Calamy
* Barrow
To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (compare dalliance)
* Shakespeare
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
* 2003 , Jameson Parker, An Accidental Cowboy , page 89:
Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in .
* 1947 - Bruce Kiskaddon, Rhymes and Ranches
A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
(squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving]] and [[score, scoring a point.
(motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
(business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
* Dryden
* Tillotson
To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
(business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
* Addison
* Gay
Good-humoured raillery.
As verbs the difference between dally and rally
is that dally is to waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle while rally is to collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.As nouns the difference between dally and rally
is that dally is several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping while rally is a demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause.dally
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
- We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.
- We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
- Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
- The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch.
Synonyms
* dilly-dallyEtymology 2
Possibly from (etyl) "da le la vuelta ! " ("twist it around !") by law of Hobson-Jobson.Noun
(dallies)- What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally .
rally
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ralier ((etyl) rallier), from (etyl) prefix .Noun
(rallies)Hyponyms
* (increase in value) (l)Verb
(en-verb)- The Grecians rally , and their powers unite.
- Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
Synonyms
* (l) * (increase in value) (l), (l)Antonyms
* (increase in value) (l)Derived terms
* rallying pointEtymology 2
(etyl) railler. See .Verb
(en-verb)- Honeycomb raillies me upon a country life.
- Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.