Dalliance: alternatives and connections

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

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A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

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Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

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A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

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A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

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A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

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To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

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To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

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A plaything for children; a bawble.

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A plaything for children; a bawble.

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Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.

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of Dawdle

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To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

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Playing at courtship; coquetry.

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of Flirt

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of Toy

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of Trifle

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