What does loll mean?

Definitions for loll
lɒlloll

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. droop, lollverb

    hang loosely or laxly

    "His tongue lolled"

  2. bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge aboutverb

    be lazy or idle

    "Her son is just bumming around all day"

GCIDE

  1. Lollverb

    To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease; as, to loll around the house on a lazy summer day.

Wiktionary

  1. lollverb

    to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease

  2. Etymology: Cognate with Icelandic lolla

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Lollverb

    To put out: used of the tongue exerted.

    All authors to their own defects are blind;
    Hadst thou but, Janus-like, a face behind,
    To see the people, when splay mouths they make,
    To mark their fingers pointed at thy back,
    Their tongues loll’d out a foot. John Dryden, Persius.

    By Strymon’s freezing streams he sat alone,
    Trees bent their heads to hear him sing his wrongs,
    Fierce tygers couch’d around, and loll’d their fawning tongues. John Dryden, Virgil.

    By the wolf were laid the martial twins;
    Intrepid on her swelling dugs they hung,
    The foster-dam loll’d out her fawning tongue. Dryden.

  2. To LOLLverb

    Etymology: Of this word the etymology is not known. Perhaps it might be contemptuously derived from lollard, a name of great reproach before the reformation; of whom one tenet was, that all trades not necessary to life are unlawful.

    So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me; so shakes and pulls me. William Shakespeare, Othello.

    He is not lolling on a lewd love bed,
    But on his knees at meditation. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.

    Close by a softly murm’ring stream,
    Where lovers us’d to loll and dream. Hudibras, p. i.

    To loll on couches, rich with cytron steds,
    And lay your guilty limbs in Tyrian beds. Dryden.

    Void of care he lolls supine in state,
    And leaves his business to be done by fate. John Dryden, Pers.

    But wanton now, and lolling at our ease,
    We suffer all the invet’rate ills of peace. Dryden.

    A lazy, lolling sort
    Of ever listless loit’rers. Dunciad, b. iv.

    The triple porter of the Stygian seat,
    With lolling tongue lay fawning at thy feet. Dryden.

    With harmless play amidst the bowls he pass’d,
    And with his lolling tongue assay’d the taste. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. loll

    To loll is to sit, lie, or stand in a lazy, relaxed way, often in a drooping or hanging manner. It can also refer to something hanging or dangling loosely.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lollverb

    to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease

  2. Lollverb

    to hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion

  3. Lollverb

    to let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow

  4. Lollverb

    to let hang from the mouth, as the tongue

  5. Etymology: [Cf. Icel. lolla to act lazily, loll, lolla, laziness, OD. lollen to sit over the fire, and E. lull. Cf. Lill, Lull.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Loll

    lol, v.i. to lie lazily about, to lounge: to hang out from the mouth.—v.t. to thrust out (the tongue).—n. Loll′er.—adv. Loll′ingly.—v.i. Loll′op, to lounge, idle: (coll.) to be moved heavily about. [Old Dut. lollen, to sit over the fire; cf. Lull.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. LOLL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Loll is ranked #42308 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Loll surname appeared 513 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Loll.

    90.4% or 464 total occurrences were White.
    5.8% or 30 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.1% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.9% or 5 total occurrences were Black.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of loll in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of loll in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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