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单词 lill for loll
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lill for lollphr.

Forms: Also Middle English lyl for lal, 1500s lill for law.
Etymology: Possibly a jingling perversion of some phrase containing the Old English læl bruise; see quot. c1000. For the jingle compare tit for tat.
Obsolete.
to give, etc. lill for loll: to retaliate.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > another may act in similar way [phrase] > like for like
to give lill for lollc1425
taunt for (pour) taunt1542
quid pro quo1560
tip for tap1573
veny for veny1612
tint for tant1620
c1000 Ælfric Exodus xxi. 25 Sylle lif wið life..wunde wið wunde, læl wið læle.]
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. iii. ii. 263 Thai come onone To bind and led away Sampsone, And to quyt hym lyl for lal [v.r. lill for law].
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 336 Scho murdreist this ilk king: And so that tyme scho plaid him lill for law.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 277 b Why may not I as well wt the like lavishnes of tongue, geve lill for loll?
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 33 Lill for loll. Id est, one for another: as good as hee brought.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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