loll Definition
loll (läl)
intransitive verb
- to lean or lounge about in a relaxed or lazy manner
- to hang in a relaxed manner; droop the dog's tongue lolled out
Etymology: ME lollen < MD, to mumble, doze, of echoic orig.
transitive verb
to let droop or hang loosely
noun
Archaic the act of lolling
loll Related Forms
loll′er noun
loll Synonyms
loll Usage Examples
Object
- tongue: The grotesque head stared with angry red eyes and the tongue lolled in its mouth.
- head: The cat was beige in color with a white front and its head lolled from side to side.
Preposition: on
- sofa: Often, these models loll about lasciviously on sofas or rumpled up beds, which cost Charney already quite a bit of trouble.
- beach: How about the rest of the time you were there - lolling on the beach in your bikini, I suppose?
- grass: When breakfast was ready we lolled on the grass and eat it smoking hot.
Modifying Another Word
- about: Hand from a still gleaming with spacious open to loll about.
- back: This stops the tongue lolling back into the windpipe.
- just: You're just lolling there in the water, enjoying the world's last true wilderness.
- lazily: Azhar leaned limply on the lightest of willows, tongue lazily lolling out.
- sideways: As he reached the 100th word of the first sentence his head was seen to loll sideways and he fell asleep.
- still: They left in the direction of Land's End, southwards, except for one which remained still lolling in the tide race.
Noun used with modifier
head: He let his head loll from side to side, soothing his flushed cheeks on the cold metal.
Followed by a transitive particle
around: We could loll around all evening twiddling our thumbs without a paperwork care in the world.
Preposition: in
- sun: The cheetahs lolled in the sun, totally indifferent to the gathered crowd and the busy rag.
- water: You're just lolling there in the water, enjoying the world's last true wilderness.
- gorgeousness: They loll about in gorgeousness; they live for art; they believe in excess.
- bath: And Albert's rather a poppet, when he's not lolling in the bath.
Followed by an intransitive particle
around: The easiest way to get a library card is to spend three years lolling around at Oxford.

