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Frolicking vs Dally - What's the difference?

frolicking | dally |

As verbs the difference between frolicking and dally

is that frolicking is while dally is to waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.

As nouns the difference between frolicking and dally

is that frolicking is the act of one who frolics while dally is several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in.

frolicking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who frolics.
  • * (Herman Melville)
    • He resolutely set his beard against their boyish frolickings , and often held forth like an oracle concerning the vanity thereof.

    dally

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Verb

  • To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
  • * Calamy
    • We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer.
  • * Barrow
    • We have put off God, and dallied with his grace.
  • To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (compare dalliance)
  • * Shakespeare
    • Not dallying with a brace of courtesans.
  • 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:
    • The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch.
    Synonyms
    * dilly-dally

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from (etyl) "da le la vuelta ! " ("twist it around !") by law of Hobson-Jobson.

    Noun

    (dallies)
  • Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in .
  • * 1947 - Bruce Kiskaddon, Rhymes and Ranches
    • What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally .