LOLL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loll mean? 

• LOLL (verb)
  The verb LOLL has 2 senses:

1. hang loosely or laxly

2. be lazy or idle

  Familiarity information: LOLL used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOLL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they loll    ... he / she / it lolls   
Past simple: lolled   
Past participle: lolled   
-ing form: lolling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hang loosely or laxly

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

droop; loll

Context example:

His tongue lolled

Hypernyms (to "loll" is one way to...):

dangle; drop; swing (hang freely)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence examples:

The children loll in the rocking chair
There loll some children in the rocking chair

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be lazy or idle

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

arse about; arse around; bum; bum about; bum around; frig around; fuck off; loaf; loll; loll around; lounge about; lounge around; waste one's time

Context example:

Her son is just bumming around all day

Hypernyms (to "loll" is one way to...):

idle; laze; slug; stagnate (be idle; exist in a changeless situation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

You should learn to think of other people; and, take my word for it, it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

At such moments, panting with red lolling tongue and with eyes fixed upon the big bull, it appeared to Buck that a change was coming over the face of things.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The wolves were now more open in their pursuit, trotting sedately behind and ranging along on either side, their red tongues lolling out, their lean sides showing the undulating ribs with every movement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He did not proceed to attack his mail, and for a half hour he lolled in his chair, doing nothing, while no more than vague, half-formed thoughts occasionally filtered through his intelligence, or rather, at wide intervals, themselves constituted the flickering of his intelligence.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In glancing up from the outside, before we entered, I had seen women and children lolling at the windows over flower-pots; and we seemed to have attracted their curiosity, for these were principally the observers who looked out of their doors.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sixty or seventy of them, large and small, smooth and shaggy—deer-hound, boar-hound, blood-hound, wolf-hound, mastiff, alaun, talbot, lurcher, terrier, spaniel—snapping, yelling and whining, with score of lolling tongues and waving tails, came surging down the narrow lane which leads from the Twynham kennels to the bank of Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could not see any cause for it, for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether; but just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

See the foxhound with hanging ears and drooping tail as it lolls about the kennels, and compare it with the same hound as, with gleaming eyes and straining muscles, it runs upon a breast-high scent—such was the change in Holmes since the morning.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw the silent circle, with gleaming eyes, lolling tongues, and silvery breaths drifting upward, closing in upon him as he had seen similar circles close in upon beaten antagonists in the past.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Her own ears, with a snuggling movement, laid their sharp points backward and down against the head for a moment, while her mouth opened and her tongue lolled peaceably out, and in this way she expressed that she was pleased and satisfied.

(White Fang, by Jack London)