Postpone vs Dealy - What's the difference?
postpone | dealy |
To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
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, title= (US, slang) An object, especially a gadget, whose name the speaker currently cannot recall.
* That dealy behind the cab with a chain hooked to it
As a verb postpone
is to delay or put off an event, appointment etc.As a noun dealy is
an object, especially a gadget, whose name the speaker currently cannot recall.postpone
English
Verb
(postpon)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}