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loll (läl)

intransitive verb

  1. to lean or lounge about in a relaxed or lazy manner
  2. 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

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loll Synonyms

loll

v.

lounge, lean, recline, loaf; see rest 1.


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loll Usage Examples

Object

  • tongue: The grotesque head stared with angry red eyes and the tongue lolled in its mouth.

Preposition: on

  • sofa: Often, these models loll about lasciviously on sofas or rumpled up beds, which cost Charney already quite a bit of trouble.

Modifying Another Word

  • about: Hand from a still gleaming with spacious open to loll about.

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.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: The easiest way to get a library card is to spend three years lolling around at Oxford.
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I am proud that I am an Australian, a daughter of the Southern Cross, a child of the mighty bush. I am thankful I am a peasant, a part of the bone and muscle of my nation, and earn my bread by the sweat of my brow, as man was meant to do. I rejoice I was not born a parasite, one of the blood-suckers who loll on velvet and satin, crushed from the proceeds of human sweat and blood and souls.

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