Are you lolly gagging or dilly dallying?

Dillydallying. Usually. I seldom lolligag.

I’m going to have to think on the “archaic words” bit. I have an idea that they are already part of my working vocabulary. What I’m lacking is anything very new, and slang in particular.

However, I did run across a few unusual ones in my recent reading (I do actually write these things down):

objurgatory
calenture
dubitative

Haven’t got around to looking them up yet, though. I’ve been dillydallying.

Agreed Jeruba. I never never lolli gag, dilly dallying though——-guilty as charged. It’s dam hot where I am. It drains you so fast. Just standing in this heat and humidity is pretty unbearable. So sometimes, it’s too hot to get much done. So, I dilly dally on occasion. More in summer though by far…
Favorite sayings? I have a friend with a Caribbean accent. And she has a saying I love (but you have to imagine it in a like, tough , street, almost Jamaican gangster accent.)
“Of course the grass is greener on the other sude. Because it’s fed with bullshit.” Lol, I love it.
Favorite funny word = Pussy Fart… Funniest combo of words I know of.

Neither. I’m futzing around.

I should have checked before I posted, but Google’s dictionary spells it lollygag with a y and one word.

“Best get to steppin”

I don’t use them, but I learned (the hard way) several expressions while working at the emergency clinic. “Tor out ta frame” means to be upset. “Runnin of’t the mouth” means vomiting. “Runnin of’t the stomach” is diarrhea. “Hasselin” (hassling) is to be jumpy, pacing, panting, or otherwise agitated.

Welcome to North Carolina.

For a reason I can’t explain – some combination of the lovely summer day outside today, the music that’s making me reminisce, an earlier question plus this one – and not that I’m doing this, you understand, but it’s what we liked to do as kids:

tube canoeing

We’d take half-inflated inner tubes (or half-deflated, depending on your outlook on such things) a little bit offshore, fold them into a C-shape and sit astride them like an old, sway-backed horse – or a tiny, inflatable canoe – that we could sit up on, with our legs in the water. And then we’d kick or paddle around and have canoe fights, by trying to capsize each other’s canoe.

This was a decade or more before we learned about canoodling.

Nobody gags me.

I dilly dally or maybe shilly shally at times. My mother in law used to say “just enough blue sky to make a sailor’s pocket handerchief”. A useful dialect word that my father used was “on ding” to describe a sudden fall of rain.

Oh, be serious!

I’s use lolligag over dilly dally. My dad would use futz. I am more likely to kibitz.

Lots of Yiddish sounds funny and has no perfect one word translation into English.

I use the word tart to describe a promiscuous woman. I rarely describe women in that way. It’s in extreme circumstance I would label a girl with that word, and it’s still said rather lightheartedly.

Nope, I’m fiddlefucking.

I’m either pussyfooting around or just plain goofing off. Did anyone mention lallygag. Well do that too.