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▪ I. lollop, n. colloq.|ˈlɒləp|
[f. next.]
1. The action or an act of ‘lolloping’.
1834M. Scott Cruise Midge xviii. (1836) 292 Demolishing..thousands of sandflies at every lollop. 1881Blackmore Christowell ii, The jump of the horse gave..a lollop to the near wheel.
2. A trifling lazy person.
1896in Farmer & Henley Slang IV. 223/2. 1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iv. 125 Of course the poor lollop had never been able to think under any circumstances.
▪ II. lollop, v. colloq.|ˈlɒləp|
[Onomatopœic extension of loll v.1 Sense 2 seems to have been evolved from a sense of the phonetic expressiveness of the word.]
1. intr. To lounge or sprawl; to go with a lounging gait.
1745Sir C. H. Williams Place Book for Year, Next in lollop'd Sandwich with negligent grace. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xxxiv. (1804) 224 You are allowed, on pretence of sickness, to lollop at your ease. 1782F. Burney Cecilia ii. iv, Keeping the fire from everybody!..he lollops so, that one's quite starved. 1796Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. 3) Lollop, to lean with one's elbows on a table. 1825Neal Bro. Jonathan III. 314 Poor Walter felt a serious disposition to lollop and sprawl about. 1872M. E. Braddon To Bitter End I. xvi. 269 Anything's better for her than lolloping over a book.
2. To bob up and down; to proceed by clumsy bounds.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 29 Its head lolloping over the end of the cart. 1878A. Brassey Voy. Sunbeam i. 3 For four long hours, therefore, we lolloped about in the trough of a heavy sea, the sails flapping as the vessel rolled. 1880Blackmore M. Anerley II. xii. 217 Short, uncomfortable, clumsy waves were lolloping under the steep grey cliffs. 1887Guillemard Cruise ‘Marchesa’ (1889) 129 A young blue hare..lollopped up..to have its ears scratched.
Hence ˈlolloping ppl. a.
1745Fem. Spectator II. 233 Many Women..when they become so [sc. wives], continue the same loitering, lolloping, idle Creatures they were before. 1840F. Trollope Widow Married xxviii, With a sort of lolloping affectation that was intended to indicate great intimacy. 1887Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. i. 9 They [sc. 14-syllable verses] had an almost irresistible tendency to degenerate into a kind of lolloping amble. |