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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The cry of a turkey.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A strong liquor or medicine.

Examples

  • “Going down to the doctors on Friday – see if I get prescribed a dollop of jollop.”

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  • “Councillor Tommy Backhouse in attendance, the jollop having been furnished by him.”

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  • “When I found him, a mean-looking grey was rearing up and savagely lashing out with his hooves in response to a sesame sweetie that Famia was coaxing him to take; it was no doubt dosed with jollop from a sinister black pottery bottle that had already been kicked over in the fray.”

    Two For The Lions

  • “But, lor ', they just went through me like jollop.”

    A Girl Among the Anarchists

  • “Must give the jollop purser a drop more," said Dumlow.”

    Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea

  • “Let him mind his salts-and-senna and jollop," said Jack sharply.”

    Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea

  • “It's very kind of you to say so, my dear, and of course I shouldn't think of going without some camomiles, and poppy-heads, and a little castor-oil, and salts and senny, and jollop.”

    To The West

  • “I'll take anything he likes to give me, even if it's jollop, and won't make a face. ”

    Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy

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  • jmjarmstrong JM has heard that some folk jollop together and some just don't - must be to do with birds of a feather etc etc. May 3, 2010

  • reesetee Also the wattle of a turkey or other fowl. Oct 22, 2008

  • bilby Toiky noises! Sep 19, 2008

  • she v., to gobble, make turkey-noises
    n., the cry of a turkey Jul 9, 2008

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