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Loll

Definition: Loll

Loll

Verb

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Loll

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms: Loll

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Loll

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Loll

English words defined with "loll": Lill, Lolled. (references)
Etymologies containing "loll": lollop. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Loll

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)55%11106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)40%8124,375
Noun (singular)5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%20N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Loll

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
LollLast name40020,126
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Loll

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Loll

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Loll

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Loll

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Loll"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "loll" (pronounced lÄ"l)
2-Ä" lbanal, cabal, caul, Dahl, Dol, doll, fall, Sol, Moll, Nidal, Pall, reinstall.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Loll

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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