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单词 lolly
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lollyn.1

Brit. /ˈlɒli/, U.S. /ˈlɑli/
Forms: Also lollie.
Etymology: short for lollipop n.
1. A sweetmeat (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). Elsewhere now usually = lollipop n. b.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet
dredgec1350
confection1393
sugar-meat1586
trinket1587
confectionary1599
soot-meat1614
dulcid1694
sweetie1721
goody-goody1745
bon-bon1796
confiture1802
candy?1809
sweetmeat1812
sucker1823
dulce1834
lokum1845
goody1847
sweet1851
dragée1853
lolly1854
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > lollipop
lulibubc1710
sucker1823
lolly1935
lollipop1953
1854 C. Spence Clara Morison II. ix. 102 Fanny ran away to the nearest lolly shop, and all her brothers and sisters followed her.
1860 C. M. Yonge Friarswood Post-Office vii. 112 You may take your choice—gingerbread-nuts, or bits of cocoa-nut; or, what's jolliest, lollies with gin inside 'em!
1860 C. M. Yonge Friarswood Post-Office x. 189 The children..bought all the ‘lollies’.
1862 Illustr. Melbourne Post 36 July The gorgeous decorations at the lolly stall.
1864 H. Weatherley Treat. Art Boiling Sugar 5 Whether they consist of the ‘Loggets’ or ‘Cushies’ of the Eastern part..the ‘Humbugs’ or ‘Lollys’ of the South..they each have their votaries.
1871 J. J. Simpson Recit. 24 Lollies that the children like.
1874 V. Pyke Adventures G. W. Pratt iii. iv. 78 One of them filled her lap with cakes and ‘lollies’ for the ‘bairnie’.
1882 A. J. Boyd Old Colonials 165 Cakes and lollies.
1886 A. R. Butler Glimpses Maori Land iii. 42 A friend of mine goes to the stores..and says, ‘I want some lollies.’
1898 ‘H.’ Grain of Gold ii. 4 The first part of every child's education..was to catch the old man by the coat tails and get a pat on the head and a ‘lollie’.
1899 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Jan. 11/3 A crowd of well-dressed women amused themselves by throwing lollies, bits of ginger, and small fruits into the mouths of a straw-hat push on the other side.
1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby v. 136 Men, when they wanted to show their appreciation of her services, sent her a box of sweets—or lollies, as they are called out here.
1915 E. G. Pilling Diary 21 Jan. in Anzac Memory (1933) 119 Everyone is eating my lollies. They chuck off when a parcel of lollies arrives, but none are lacking on the eating stakes.
1935 ‘G. Orwell’ Clergyman's Daughter ii. 131 London hawkers would come with baskets of doughnuts or water ices or ‘halfpenny lollies’.
1936 C. R. Allen Poor Scholar i. 17 Even Herby fought down a longing for liquorice as they went by his favourite ‘lolly’ shop.
1955 Times 13 June 4/4 The ‘real menace of sweets’ to dental health was the constant sucking of lollies or other sweets, particularly at night.
1955 Times 6 Aug. 8/4 A merry little cottage is painted in clear white and lolly pink.
1959 B. Comyns Vet's Daughter xii. 100 A scraggy woman with a fringe, dressed in lolly pink.
1961 Coast to Coast 1959–60 161 Anyway, Vivi, you look nice in those new shoes. Here's threepence for lollies.
1964 Weekly News (Auckland) 10 June 3/3 The most popular event was a giant lolly scramble. Hundreds of children spent a few minutes of furious activity seizing their share of about 7000 sweets tossed among them.
1969 M. Drabble Waterfall 87 He had acquired eleven wooden lollie sticks.
1969 Landfall 23 99 What was an award for merit promises now to become a lolly-scramble.
1972 J. Wilson Hide & Seek i. 8 She looked longingly at the ice-cream van... ‘Can I have a lolly?’
2. Cricket. An easy catch. Also as adj. Cf. dolly adj. b.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > [noun] > catch or catching > types of
gaper1903
slip-catch1903
lolly1924
slip-catching1950
alley-oop1965
1924 H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match v. 160 He..hit it—a ‘lolly’ into the hands of point.
1960 J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Austral. xv. 128 May did not last long..giving Benaud a lolly-catch at gully-slip.
3. slang. Money. Also attributive.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1943 M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 61 This 'ere bloke touches the Guv'ment fer a nice drop er lolly.
1958 Spectator 14 Feb. 194/2 Next year's Budget gives fistfuls of lolly away to everybody.
1965 Listener 28 Oct. 677/2 A young English con-man..stands to gain lots of lovely lolly.
1971 Ink 12 June 14/1 Bernie's salesmen kept bringing in the lolly during the..boom.
1973 Scotsman 13 Feb. 8/3 The rank and file Bishops would be better off, financially, if they accepted jobs as Principals in the Egg, Poultry and Potato Division of the Ministry of Agriculture... In terms of lolly they would be better off as Senior Officers in the Land, Drainage and Water Supply Division of the Ministry.
1973 G. Moffat Deviant Death i. 14 There's only one person bringing in the lolly in that house.

Draft additions June 2015

lolly water n. Australian and New Zealand a soft drink; (later also) a weak or sweet alcoholic drink (depreciative).figurative in quot. 1909.
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1909 Dubbo Liberal (New S. Wales) 18 Dec. In pathetic contra-distinction to the able and humane leader of your last issue is the weak, lolly-water effusion signed ‘Townsman’.
1941 News (Adelaide) 5 Dec. Hundreds of gallons of ‘lolly water’ (the aboriginal name for lemon and orange squash) are being consumed in Darwin.
1978 D. Ballantyne Talkback Man 59 He says lolly water can be as dangerous as booze.
1988 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 24 May 6 Call it lolly-water, take the mickey out of it if you like, but in truth it's a wine well-suited to our warm climate.
2012 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 9 Jan. 16 Geez, I don't want to drink beer and overpriced alcoholic lolly water all day.

Draft additions June 2017

lolly lounge n. South African slang an establishment where young women are prostituted in return for drugs.
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2012 Star (Johannesburg) 21 May 5/3 These houses are called lolly lounges because the glass pipe/popper bottle used to smoke substances like crystal meth and tik is shaped like a lollipop.
2013 S. Powell & K. Harris in thoughtleader.co.za 17 Oct. (blog, accessed 16 Dec. 2014) South Africa now has its own ‘scourge’ or ‘epidemic’ in the form of ‘tik’ (methamphetamine)... We now have ‘lolly lounges’, ‘tik babies’, and ‘tik whores/girls’, all presided over by the general fear of the ‘Numbers’ gangs.
2014 Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 9 Sept. One resident said there was a lolly lounge right next to her flat and that she always lived in fear for her and her children's safety.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lollyn.2

Brit. /ˈlɒli/, U.S. /ˈlɑli/, Canadian English /ˈlɒli/
Etymology: Shortened < loblolly n. Compare Eng. Dial. Dict.
Canadian.
(See quots.)
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the world > the earth > water > ice > [noun] > semi-frozen
slusha1642
lolly1792
sludge1817
slob1832
slob ice1836
1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. p. xii Lolly, soft ice, or congealed snow floating in the water when it first begins to freeze.
1889 W. H. Withrow Our own Country: Canada 68 The distance to Cape Traverse is about nine miles, part solid ice, part drifting ice, part water, and sometimes a great deal of broken ice or ‘lolly’.
1895 Dial. Notes 1 379 Lolly, ice and snow in the water along the shore... It is the hardest kind of thing to get the boat through.
1963 Amer. Speech 38 299 Lolly, soft ice beginning to form in a harbor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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