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Definition: Loll |
LollVerb1. Hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled". 2. Be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "loll" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references) |
Note: Loll \Loll\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Lolled; Lolling.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | LOLL. Mother's loll; a favourite child, the mother's darling. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: LollSynonyms: arse about (v), arse around (v), bum about (v), bum around (v), droop (v), frig around (v), fuck off (v), loaf (v), loll around (v), lounge about (v), lounge around (v), waste one's time (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Horizontality | Verb: be horizontal; Adjective: lie, recline, couch; lie down, lie flat, lie prostrate; sprawl, loll, sit down. |
Inactivity | Verb: be inactive; Adjective: do nothing; move slowly; let the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile. |
Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours. | |
Support | Verb: be supported; lie on, sit on, recline on, lean on, loll on, rest on, stand on, step on, repose on, abut on, bear on, be based on; have at one's back; bestride, bestraddle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Loll |
| English words defined with "loll": Lill, Lolled. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "loll": lollop. (references) |
| "Loll" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 55.00% of the time. "Loll" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 55% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 40% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "loll" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Loll | Last name | 400 | 20,126 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "loll": loll about ♦ loll around ♦ loll back ♦ loll condition ♦ loll out. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
loll | 11 |
camp loll | 4 |
edward loll | 3 |
hentai loll | 2 |
awpictures.com loll | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "loll"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtrihem me nge. (various references) | |
Arabic | تدلى (bag, dangle, droop, fall, flag, flow, lop, sag, suspend, swing), تبختر (lope, mince, parade, ponce about, prance, strut, swagger, waddle), إسترخى (dangle, laze, lounge, refresh, relax, sprawl, unbend, unbuckle, unwind), دلى (adduce, dangle, hang). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вися (cool one's heels, dangle, hang, hang down, hang over, impend, sag, swag, swing), облягам (lean, recline), провесвам (dangle, hang, sling, suspend, swing), излягам се (lounge, recline). (various references) | |
Czech | volnì viset. (various references) | |
Danish | instabil rulning (loll condition). (various references) | |
Dutch | negatieve aanvangsstabiliteit (loll condition). (various references) | |
Farsi | لمیدن (Lounge, Recline), لم دادن (Lounge), لم (Trick), تکیه (Emphasis, Reliance, Stay), زبان بیرون , اویختن (Append, Dangle, Hang, Hangout, Slouch), بیرون افتادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | lojua, loikoilla (lie out-stretched, sprawl), maata retkottaa (sprawl). (various references) | |
French | se prélasser (lounge), pendre, fringuer, faire pendre, ballotter. (various references) | |
German | lümmeln (sprawl), sich rekeln (loll about, loll around, stretch), sich flegeln (sprawl), rekeln, räkeln. (various references) | |
Greek | κρέμαμαι (dangle, droop, hang, lop, pend), κρεμώ (drape, hang, sling, suspend), ξαπλώνω (lay, lay down, lie, lie down, stretch out), χουζουρεύω (lie in), εξαπλώνομαι νωχελώσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשבת סרוח, ל"לחית (pant), ל"תבטל (bum around, fall through, idle, lallygag, laze, loaf, loiter, putter, slack). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lustálkodik (Cose, idle, laze, to bum, to laze, to loll about, to take one's ease), kilógat (to loll out). (various references) | |
Italian | ciondolare (dangle, hang around, Mike, slouch). (various references) | |
Manx | leaystey (balancing, bank, boggle, brandish, dangle, fluctuate, fluctuating, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reel, reeling, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, sway, swaying, swerve, swing, swing back, swinging, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation, wave, wave of hand, waver, waver of fixture). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olllay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | refestelar-se, descansar vontade. (various references) | |
Romanian | se lungi (become longer, elongate, fall, get longer, go on, grow longer, lengthen), atârna (beetle, depend, flap, flow, hang, lop, suspend, weigh), a-i ieşi afarã, a-şi odihni (repose). (various references) | |
Russian | сидеть развалясь, развалиться (sprawl). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zavaliti se, opušteno ležati, oklembesiti se, izvaliti se. (various references) | |
Spanish | repanchigarse (lounge), recostarse (lean, lie back, sit back), rapantigarse, colgar (append, dangle, droop, halter, hang, hang down, hang out, hang up, loll out, put up, ring off, sag, sling, string up, top), caer (catch on, come down, crumble, decline, demise, droop, drop, fall, fall down, fall off, fall on, fall out, fall over, go, go down, hang, like, live, plunge, set, sink, tilt, tip over, trip, trip over, trip up, tumble, tumble down), arrellanarse (settle, sink, sprawl, spread oneself). (various references) | |
Swedish | vräka sig (sprawl). (various references) | |
Thai | เอนห้อย. (various references) | |
Turkish | yayılmak (be out at grass, be rife, branch, circulate, diffuse, disperse, effuse, emanate, expand, fan, fan out, get about, get around, get round, go, grow rife, lounge, mushroom, outstretch, overspread, permeate, pervade, ramble, ramp, resound, scatter, splay, sprawl, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, unfold), uzanmak (be couched, be ranging to the, grasp at, hand up, kip, kip down, lie, lie down, lounge, outstretch, range, reach, reach forth, reach out, reach out for, recline, repose oneself, rest, run, run along, skirt along, snatch at, sprawl, spread), tembelce oturmak, ağzından sarkıtmak (loll out). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сидіти розвалившись, звисати (bangle, beetle, hang down, overhang), ледарювання. (various references) | |
Welsh | lled-orwedd (lounge, recline), gorweddian (lounge). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "loll": lollapalooza, lollapaloozas, lolled, loller, lollers, lollies, lolling, lollipop, lollipops, lollop, lolloped, lolloping, lollops, lolls, lolly, lollygag, lollygagged, lollygagging, lollygags, lollypop, lollypops. (additional references) | |
Words containing "loll": loblollies, loblolly. (additional references) | |
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"Loll" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: allll, alllll, aloll, ioll, koll, lall, Lalla, lell, Lelli, Liell, lilla, Lillo, liol, ll, lll, llll, Lllu, llo, llog, Lloll, Locl, loil, lol, lola, lole, loli, lolla, Lolli, lolr, lolu, lolul, Losli, lotl, lowl, loyl, luil, lul, lully, lyl, oll. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "loll" (pronounced lÄ"l) |
| 2 | -Ä" l | banal, cabal, caul, Dahl, Dol, doll, fall, Sol, Moll, Nidal, Pall, reinstall. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-l-l-o" | |
-2 letters: lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-l-l-o" | |
+1 letter: lolls, lolly. | |
+2 letters: lolled, loller, lollop, tallol. | |
+3 letters: holdall, jollily, linalol, locally, logroll, lollers, lollies, lolling, lollops, lowball, loyally, tallols. | |
+4 letters: allodial, billfold, blowball, callaloo, clodpoll, clonally, fellowly, florally, flotilla, follicle, globally, hellhole, holdalls, hollowly, linalols, linalool, loblolly, logrolls, lollipop, lolloped, lollygag, lollypop, lonelily, lovelily, lowballs, malleoli, mellowly, molehill, plimsoll, pollical, poolhall, sallowly, wellhole, woolfell, woollily, yellowly. | |
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