DILATORY
ADJECTIVES
► BACKING AND FILLING irresolute; dilatory; hesitant; shifty → c1840 Eng. colloq.
► DACKLING slow, dilatory → 1808 Sc.
► DILETERIOUS dilatory → 1875 Eng. dial.
► FABIAN delaying, dilatory → 1777
► LAG-LAST a slow, dilatory person; a loiterer; one who is habitually late or behindhand → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LONGSOME tardy, slow, dilatory, sluggish → 1661-2 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► OFF-PUTTEN ► OFF-PUTTING dilatory, delaying, trifling → 1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► REMORAL given to delay, dilatory → a1625 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► LAG-TAIL a slow, dilatory person; a loiterer; one who is habitually late or behindhand → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► BE BEHINDHAND LIKE THE MILLER’S FILLER to be dilatory in keeping appointments → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DRINGLE to waste time in a lazy, lingering manner; to be slow, dilatory; to dawdle; to trickle sluggishly → c1680 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HANG AN ARSE to hold back; to be reluctant or dilatory → 1596
► WHIP THE DEVIL ROUND THE STUMP to accomplish something by indirection or subterfuge; to be evasive or dilatory → 1776 Eng. dial.
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