An activity involving matches being simultaneously flicked and lit. The matches are held like paper footballs against the striker on the matchbox. The middle or fore finger is then used to flick the match. This causes the match to be lit before flying off the box. Often played as a game with friends.
Never go dillywacking in the woods. You could start forest fires. Also, be careful not to dillywack into someone's hair.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)