Word.ws English Dictionary

shilly-shallyings

shilly-shallyings is the plural of shilly-shallying.

Meaning of shilly-shallying

Noun

shilly-shallying (plural shilly-shallyings)

  1. An act of procrastination of vacillation.

Questions about shilly-shallyings

What is shilly-shallyings the plural of?
Shilly-shallyings is the plural of shilly-shallying.

Words near shilly-shallyings in the dictionary

  1. shilly-shallier
  2. shilly-shalliers
  3. shilly-shallies
  4. shilly-shally
  5. shilly-shallying
  6. shilly-shallyings
  7. shillying and shallying
  8. shillyshallier
  9. shillyshalliers
  10. shillyshallyer
  11. shillyshallyers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shilly-shallyings (page history and authors); shilly-shallying (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shilly-shallyings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shilly-shallyings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.