Plural of dallier; multiple people who dally, flirt, or waste time on unimportant matters.
Plural form of dallier, adding the regular -s suffix to indicate more than one person engaged in dallying behavior.
Jane Austen's novels are full of dalliers—young people who spend entire summers flirting and wasting time before finally getting married. Some things never change!
Plural form of agent noun with accumulated gendered judgment. Women described as 'dalliers' faced moral condemnation; men rarely faced the same label or carried the same shame.
Use descriptively without moral gendering. Be aware the term has historically criminalized female leisure and choice.
["those who linger","those who engage leisurely"]
Collective shame directed at women 'dalliers' served to police female time, autonomy, and pleasure; the term reinforced control over women's labor and socialization.
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