If you'll allow more than one object, then a combination of [onebang] or [once] with [delay] should do what you're looking for. You'll need to reset them each time, but it should still be simpler than using spigots.
Incidentally, from you title I was hoping that you were asking for a [delay] object that would schedule a bang n milliseconds before it was triggered. Now that would be something!
howdy, [delay] ignores multiple input bangs and considers only the "last"
from the help file: "sending a "bang" to a [delay] which is already set will reschedule its output, cancelling the old one."
What if I wanted the opposite, like, further bangs will be ignored and not reschedule the output. The output would then be rescheduled only after it did output something and then received a new bang. Is there an object that does that?
I made a patch that does it, with [spigot], seems to handle the job. Find it attached.
cheers