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 | Jan 30, 2014This week's theme Americanisms This week's words bloviate skulduggery honeyfuggle lallygag bumfuzzle             A.Word.A.Daywith Anu Garg lallygag or lollygag
 PRONUNCIATION: MEANING: 
verb intr.: 1. To fool around, waste time, or spend time lazily. 2. To neck. ETYMOLOGY: 
Origin uncertain. Earliest documented use: 1862.
 USAGE: 
"I lallygagged around and when it was evident that they were not coming
home to take me, I had to start off." Margaret Mason; A Memory at Large; RoseDog Books; 2011. See more usage examples of lallygag in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:War is the unfolding of miscalculations. -Barbara Tuchman, historian (1912-1989) | 
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