loll
pronunciation
How to pronounce loll in British English:
UK [lɒl]
How to pronounce loll in American English:
US [lɑl]
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- Verb:
- hang loosely or laxly
- be lazy or idle
Word Origin
- loll (v.)
- mid-14c., lollen "to lounge idly, hang loosely," perhaps related to Middle Dutch lollen "to doze, mumble," or somehow imitative of rocking or swinging. Specifically of the tongue from 1610s. Related: Lolled; lolling. As a noun, from 1709. Grose ["Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785] has lollpoop "A lazy, idle drone."
Example
- 1. Next time don 't loll out your tongue out .
- 2. She is loll on a sofa , with nothing to do .
- 3. Don 't loll about in the street after school .
- 4. Loll politics has not proceeded beyond the ideals of early victorian radicalism .
- 5. Yahweh says this , " as the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion a pair of legs or the tip of an ear , so shall some of you be saved , o israelites of samaria who loll on comfortable couches and rest on pillows of damascus . "