lollop
/ˈlɒləp
/verb (lollops, lolloping, lolloped) [no object, with adverbial of direction]
Move in an ungainly way in a series of clumsy paces or bounds: the bear lolloped along the path...
- Today, you will be lucky to see a jackal scamper off, or a black-naped hare lollop across a path.
- It is the site of Costa Rica's greatest concentration of national parks, and pretty much anything that crawls, flits, swoops or lollops through Central America can be found here.
- The robot puppy lollops over, its eyes flashing traffic-light green as it makes friendly jingling noises like a doorbell.
Origin
Mid 18th century: probably from loll, associated with trollop.
Rhymes
- inadvisability
- inadvisable
- in a fair way to do something
- in a heap
- in a heartbeat
- in a hurry
- in aid of
- inalienability
- inalienable
- inalienably
- in all
- in all but name
- in (all) conscience
- in all honesty
- in all innocence
- in all likelihood
- in all one's born days
- in all one's puff
- in all probability
- in all seriousness
- in all weathers
- inalterability
- inalterable
- inalterably
- in a manner of speaking