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shillying and shallying

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
shilly-ing and shal-ly-ing
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle of shilly and shally

Questions

What does shillying and shallying mean?
present participle of shilly and shally

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