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Dally

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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Verb group 8

Flirt 84% connected

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.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Flirt 84% connected

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.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Play 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Play 84% connected

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

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Toy 84% connected

A plaything for children; a bawble.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Toy 84% connected

A plaything for children; a bawble.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Trifle 84% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Trifle 84% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 14

Acquit 76% connected

Acquitted; set free; rid of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Behave 76% connected

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Comport 76% connected

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Conduct 76% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deport 76% connected

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Speak 76% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 2

Vamp 76% connected

To advance; to travel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wanton 76% connected

Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 8

Dalliance 74% connected

The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dalliance 74% connected

The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dallier 74% connected

One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dallier 74% connected

One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Flirt 74% connected

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.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Flirt 74% connected

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.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Synonym 11

Butterfly 92% connected

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Coquet 92% connected

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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Coquette 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dawdle 92% connected

To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flirt 92% connected

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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Mash 92% connected

A mesh.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Philander 92% connected

To make love to women; to play the male flirt.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Play 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Romance 92% connected

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Toy 92% connected

A plaything for children; a bawble.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Trifle 92% connected

A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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