SHILLY

Meaning of SHILLY in English

shally [verb] [I] [informal] [disapproving] - to spend too much time doing something or making a decision because you do not know what is the right thing to doStop shilly-shallying and make a decision now!

Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012

SHILLY — shally v. hem and haw, dilly-dally, teeter-totter, see-saw, yo-yo, vacillate, waver, alternate, fluctuate, dither, falter, tergiversate, Brit haver, hum and …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SHILLY — shilly shally shilly shallying shilly shallied
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SHILLY-SHALLY — I. adverb Etymology: irregular reduplication of shall I Date: 1700 in an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner, II. adjective Date: …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SHILLY-SHALLY — I. |shilē|shalē, -ili|shali adverb Etymology: reduplication of shall I : in an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner II. adjective : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SHILLY-SHALLY — — shilly-shallier , n. /shil"ee shal'ee/ , v. , shilly-shallied, shilly-shallying , n. , pl. shilly-shallies , adj. , adv. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SHILLY-SHALLY — I. ˈshi-lē-ˌsha-lē adverb Etymology: irregular reduplication of shall I Date: 1700 : in an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner II. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHILLY-SHALLY — adv in an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner. 2. shilly-shally ·noun irresolution; hesitation; also, occupation with trifles. 3. shilly-shally ·vi …
Webster English vocab
SHILLY-SHALLY — ■ verb ( shilly-shallies , ~ing , shilly-shallied ) be indecisive. ■ noun indecisive behaviour. Derivatives ~er (also shilly-shallier ) …
Concise Oxford English vocab
SHILLY-SHALLY — [shilly-shally] adv [irreg. redupl. of shall I] (1700): in an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner [2]shilly-shally adj (1734): irresolute, vacillating …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SHILLY-SHALLY — shilly-shall|y BrE AmE ˈʃɪl i ˌʃæl |i ▷ shilly-shall|ied id ▷ shilly-shall|ies iz ▷ shilly-shall|ying i‿ɪŋ
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SHILLY-SHALLY — / ˈʃɪli ʃæli; NAmE / verb ( shilly-shallies , shilly-shally·ing , shilly-shallied , shilly-shallied ) [ v ] ( informal …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHILLY-SHALLY — shil ‧ ly-shal ‧ ly /ˈʃɪli ˌʃæli/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle shilly-shallied , present participle …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SHILLY-SHALLY — v., adj., & n. --v.intr. (-ies, -ied) hesitate to act or choose; be undecided; vacillate. --adj. vacillating. --n. indecision; vacillation. …
Oxford English vocab
SHILLY-SHALLY — ( shilly-shallies, shilly-shallying, shilly-shallied) If you say that someone is shilly-shallying , you disapprove of the fact that they are …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHILLY-SHALLY — (shilly-shallies, ~ing, shilly-shallied) If you say that someone is ~ing, you disapprove of the fact that they are hesitating when …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SHILLY SHALLYING — Synonyms and related words : caution, cautious, cautiousness, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, delaying, demurring, diffidence, diffident, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, equivocation, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SHILLY-SHALLY — 1. сущ. 1) нерешительность, неуверенность Syn : indecision 2) редк. неуверенный, нерешительный человек 2. прил. нерешительный, неуверенный, нетвердый to stand/go …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SHILLY-SHALLY — 1. сущ.; тж. shillyshally1) нерешительность, неуверенность Syn:indecision, vacillation, irresolution 2) редк. неуверенный, нерешительный человек 2. прил.; тж. shillyshallyнерешительный, неуверенный, нетвердый …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SHILLY-SHALLY — 1. сущ. ; тж. shillyshally 1) нерешительность, неуверенность Syn: indecision , vacillation , irresolution 2) редк. неуверенный, нерешительный человек 2. …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
SHILLY-SHALLY — 1. сущ.; тж. shillyshally 1) нерешительность, неуверенность Syn: indecision, vacillation, irresolution 2) редк. неуверенный, нерешительный человек 2. прил.; тж. shillyshally нерешительный, неуверенный, нетвердый Syn: vacillating, irresolute, undecided 3. гл.; …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
SHILLY-SHALLY — 1. сущ. 1) нерешительность, неуверенность Syn : indecision 2) редк. неуверенный, нерешительный человек 2. прил. нерешительный, неуверенный, нетвердый to stand/go …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
WOBBLY — Synonyms and related words : aspen, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, chattering, choppy, desultory, deviative, dickey, dilapidated, disconnected, discontinuous, doddering, eccentric, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
WAVERING — Synonyms and related words : adrift, aflicker, afloat, agnostic, alternating, alternation, ambiguous, amorphous, bickering, blinking, broken, capricious, capriciousness, careening, catchy, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
VACILLATION — Synonyms and related words : alternation, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, changeableness, dallying, demurral, dillydallying, equivocation, erraticism, erraticness, fickleness, fluctuation, frequency, frequency …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
VACILLATING — Synonyms and related words : adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, changeable, changeful, coquettish, desultory, deviable, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, faddish, fast …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
VACILLATE — Synonyms and related words : alternate, back and fill, bob, bobble, careen, change, changeable, chop and change, coggle, dally, dallying, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PENDULOUS — Synonyms and related words : cascading, dangling, dependent, depending, drooping, falling, falling loosely, faltering, flowing, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, hanging, harmonic, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
OSCILLATORY — Synonyms and related words : alternate, beating, circling, cyclic, epochal, even, every other, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, harmonic, intermittent, isochronal, libratory, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SHILLYSHALLY — 1. сущ.; тж. shilly-shally1) нерешительность, неуверенность Syn:indecision, vacillation, irresolution 2) редк. неуверенный, нерешительный человек 2. прил.; тж. shilly-shallyнерешительный, неуверенный, нетвердый …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SHILLYSHALLY — 1. сущ. ; тж. shilly-shally 1) нерешительность, неуверенность Syn: indecision , vacillation , irresolution 2) редк. неуверенный, нерешительный человек 2. …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
SHILLYSHALLY — 1. сущ.; тж. shilly-shally 1) нерешительность, неуверенность Syn: indecision, vacillation, irresolution 2) редк. неуверенный, нерешительный человек 2. прил.; тж. shilly-shally нерешительный, неуверенный, нетвердый Syn: vacillating, irresolute, undecided 3. гл.; …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики

Cambridge English vocab

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