Jim [i.e. “a female dog”] rolled a merry eye and lolloped her tongue in our direction.
Conceited “eye rolling” gesture would indeed seem to bear distinct relevance in, besides marriage counselling and pediatric healthcare, broad-based cognitive linguistics according to vastly omniscient Wikipedia.org as follows:
“Eye-rolling Rotating the eyes upward generally signals condescension, contempt, boredom, or exasperation. It can be interpreted as the equivalent of saying, ‘I don’t like this’ or ‘I think this is really stupid’ or ‘I simply can’t believe this.’”
But to roll a “merry” eye almost pokes derisive contempt at the central feline quadruped of such make-believe narrative. Perhaps no less interesting, standardized dictionary entry lollop “to bob up & down” appears to derive from a lexical fusion or confusion of both protogeneous verb loll “to droop” and falsely onomotopoeic wallop “to thrash” when thereby joined together.
