Verb. (old colloquial).—To lounge; to lie lazily; to sprawl.
1362. Langland, Piers Plowman (C), x. 215. He that lolleth is lame
other his leg out of ioynte.
1602. Shakspeare, Othello, iv. 1, l. 137. So hangs, and lolls, and
weeps upon me.
1609. Shakspeare, Troilus and Cressida, i. 3. At this fustie
stuffe, The large Achilles on his prest bed lolling, From his deepe
chest laughes out a lowd applause.
1640. T. Heywood, Love’s Mistress, i. Juno lay lolling in my
Uncle’s lap.
1676. Etherege, Man of Mode, in Wks. (1704); i. 194. And his looks
are more languishing than a lady’s when She lolls at stretch in her
coach.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Lolpoop.... Loll, to Lean on
the Elbows; also to put out the Tongue in derision.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, 1. 204. Meantime his lordship lolls within
at ease.
1711. Spectator, No. 187. Hyæna can loll in her coach, with
something so fixed in her countenance, that it is impossible to
conceive her meditation is employed only on her dress and her
charms in that posture.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1727. Gay, Beggar’s Opera, i. Air 14. Fondly let me loll, Pretty,
pretty Poll.
1753. Adventurer, No. 96. I found him in full health, lolling in an
easy chair.
1754. Connoisseur, No. 11. The genuine careless loll and easy
saunter.
1864. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Bk. iv. ch. xvi. ‘I wish to
goodness, Ma,’ said Lavvy ... ‘that you’d loll a little.’
1872. Figaro, 22 June, ‘Lay of the Gallant Yachtsman.’ You may see
me here, upon the pier, loll lazily to and fro.
1876. M. E. Braddon, Joshua Haggard, x. ‘I don’t see any harm in a
good novel once in a way, if you take your time over it, and don’t
loll by the fireside half the day, poking your nose into a book and
letting your house go to rack and ruin.’
1893. Henley, London Voluntaries, 10. Lingers and lolls, loth to be
done with day.
Loller. See Lollpoop.
Lollipop (or Lollypop), subs. (colloquial).—1. A sweetmeat. Also lolly.
1823. Grose, Vulgar Tongue, 3rd ed., s.v.
1838. C. Selby, Catching an Heiress, Sc. 2. Our hearts we cheer,
with lollypops.
1844. Disraeli, Coningsby, ix. The ... hopeless votary of
lollypop—the opium eater of schoolboys.
1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., i. 215. Hard-bake, almond-toffy,
halfpenny lollypops.
1861. Thackeray, Lovel the Widower, i. I would ... never give these
children lollypop.
1876. C. Hindley, Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, p. 101.
William Carrol was his partner, or butty, in the lollipop business.
1885. G. A. Sala, in Daily Telegraph, 3 Sept., 5/5. From a
perambulator to a packet of lollies or sugarplums.
2. (venery).—The penis. Also ladies’ lollipop. For synonyms see
Creamstick and Prick.
Lollop, verb. (colloquial).—To lounge about; to loaf. Hence, lollop,
subs. = a lazybones or loafer; and lollopy, adj. = lazy.
1745. C. H. Williams, Place-book, quoted in Notes & Queries, 7 S.
iv. 425. Next in lollop’d Sandwich, with negligent grace.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Random, xxxiv. ‘You are allowed, on pretence
of sickness, to lollop at your ease, while your betters are kept to
hard duty!’
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
1865. Masson, Inaugural Address, 13 Nov. What matters it to our
judgment of a beautiful poem, it is asked, what was the appearance
and personal character of the author—whether he was laborious and
independent in his habits, or lolloped on the surface of society,
accepting all he could get and paying nobody? With all deference to
those who think otherwise I say that it matters a great deal.
1878. Lady Brassey, Voy. of Sunbeam, 1. i. For four long hours ...
we lollopped about in the trough of a heavy sea.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 26 Jan., p. 5, col. 3. She lollops about in
a loose dressing-gown, and he is seduced into the carelessness of
carpet slippers.
Lollop-fever, subs. (American).—Laziness.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Lolloping, adj. (colloquial).—Idle; lounging; slovenly.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib, xvi. Turier ... made a heavy lolloping hit.
1844. Stephens, Adv. of a Gentleman, iii. Horses having long
pasterns, have usually a lumbering lolloping action, neither fast
nor pleasant.
Lollpoop (Loll, or Loller), subs. (old).—See quots.
1600. Breton, Pasquils’ Madcappe, p. 10. A lobbe, a lovte, a heavy
loll, a logge.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Lollpoop, a lazy, idle drone.
Loll-tongue. To play a game at loll-tongue, verb. phr. (old).—To be
salivated for syphilis.—Grose (1796).
Lolly, subs. (pugilists’).—1. The head. For synonyms see Crumpet.