1621. Burton, Anatomy (ed. 1852), ii. 178. There is a difference
(he grumbles) between laplolly and pheasants.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1703. Ward, London Spy, Pt. xii. 289. Considering Coffee to be a
liquor that sits most easie upon Wine, we thought it the best way
to check the aspiring Fumes of the most Christian Juice by an
Antichristian Dose of Mahometan loblolly.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1748. F. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.). Loblolly (S.) any uncouth,
strange, irregular mixture of different things together to compose
pottage or broth.
1767. Garrick, Peep behind the Curtain, i. 2. My ingenious
countrymen have no taste now for the high seasoned comedies; and I
am sure that I have none for the pap and loplolly of our present
writers.
1787. Grose, Prov. Glossary. Loblolly, an odd mixture of
spoon-meat.
Loblolly-boy, subs. (nautical).—See quots. In America a bayman or nurse
(q.v.). See quots.
1617. Shadwell, Fair Quaker of Deal, i. [sailor loq.] Our rogue of
a loblolly doctor, being not satisfied with his twopences, must
have a note for ten months’ pay for every cure.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Random, xxvii. The rude insults of the sailors
and petty officers, among whom I was known by the name of loblolly
boy.
1776. The Patent, a Poem [Note]. Lob-lolly-boy is a person who on
board of a man-of-war attends the surgeon and his mates, and one
who knows just as much of the business of a seaman as the author of
this poem.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. On board of the ships of war,
water-gruel is called loblolly, and the surgeon’s servant or mate,
the loblolly boy.
1846. Robert Bell, Ballads & Songs of the Peasantry of England, p.
182. Jack Rider of Linton was loblolley boy aboard the Victory.
1883. Clark Russell, Sailor’s Language, s.v.
1885. Punch, 11 July, p. 18. Lor’ bless yer, a loblolly boy can
tell old hands how not to steer.
Lobs, subs. (common).—1. An assistant watcher; an under-gamekeeper.