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loll Definition

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

loll Related Forms

loller noun

loll Synonyms

loll

v.

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.

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