lollop v.
to lounge, to sprawl.
Roderick Random (1979) 194: Here’s fine discipline on board, when such lazy skulking sons of b-tches as you, are allowed, on pretence of sickness, to lollop at your ease, while your betters are kept to hard duty! | ||
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Lollop. To Lollop, to lean or rest one’s Elbows on a Table. | ||
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: To Lollop. To lean with one’s elbows on a table. | ||
Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1796]. | ||
‘The Soho Bazaar’ in James Catnach (1878) 194: Ladies in furs, and gemmun in spurs / Who lollop and lounge about all day. | ||
Sam Sly 31 Mar. 2/3: Mrs. N—es, of Whiskin-street, to keep her two girls from lolloping out of window, exposing their bare bosoms to the passers by. | ||
Inaugural Address 13 Nov. n.p.: What matters it [...] whether he was laborious and Indep. in his habits, or lolloped on the surface of society, accepting all he could get and paying nobody? [F&H]. | ||
Voyage of the ‘Sunbeam’ I i: For four long hours [...] we lollopped about in the trough of a heavy sea [F&H]. | ||
Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 5/3: She lollops about in a loose dressing-gown [F&H]. | ||
My Brilliant Career 17: Now if you’ll oblige me, Mr Blackshaw, if you’ll lollop somewhere else for a minute or two. | ||
Limehouse Nights 258: Old Foo Ah lolloped on a chair. | ||
None But the Lonely Heart 79: He lolloped along there, aside of Old Nick. | ||
Jennings Goes To School 78: The ball came lolloping towards him – an easy shot to save. | ||
After You’d Gone (2001) 67: He eyeballs us briefly, but lollops on. |
In derivatives
lazy.
Sonoma County Indep. 13–19 Jan. 🌐 I already feel lollopy, but Julia is ready to go through the whole sequence again. |