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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To move, stand, or recline in an indolent or relaxed manner.
  2. v. To hang or droop laxly: a pennant lolling from the mast.
  3. v. To permit to hang or droop laxly: lolled his head on the armrest.
  4. n. Archaic An act or attitude of lolling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To lie or lean at ease; recline or lean idly, or in a careless or languid attitude.
  2. To hang loose and extended, as the tongue protruded from the mouth of a dog or a cow.
  3. To hang up or out; allow to hang out, as the tongue.
  4. To fondle: dandle.
  5. To box (one's ears).
  6. To utter unctuously.
  7. n. One who lounges and lolls about; a loafer.
  8. n. A pet; a spoiled child; a child that is much fondled.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
  2. v. To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.
  3. v. To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor.
  4. v. To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. hang loosely or laxly
  2. v. be lazy or idle

Etymologies

  1. Cognate with Icelandic lolla ("to act lazily") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English lollen, probably from Middle Dutch, to doze. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (6)

Words with the same meaning

  1. recline
  1. lean
  1. droop
  1. idler
  1. relax
  1. slack

hypernyms (7)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. dangle
  1. drop
  1. swing
  1. idle
  1. stagnate
  1. slug
  1. laze

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Words that are found in similar contexts

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  2. rak
  3. saris
  4. generalizing
  1. nexte
  2. depressors
  3. shoestring
  4. devil
  1. self-obsession
  2. stille
  3. cornelian
  4. cummerbund
  1. depressor
  2. saunterer
  3. cleaveth
  4. chiseling
  1. Epicureanism
  2. abhorr
  3. flutterer
  4. slitch
  1. paragraphing
  2. on-looker
  3. scratcher
  4. honcho

rhymes (47)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Amal
  2. Bhopal
  3. Chagall
  4. Coll
  5. Dahl
  6. Doll
  7. Fall
  8. Jamal
  9. Laval
  1. Mahal
  2. Natal
  3. Qual
  4. Sol
  5. Tal
  6. Transvaal
  7. Vaal
  8. Waal
  9. Wiesenthal
  1. banal
  2. bol
  3. bolle
  4. cabal
  5. casal
  6. caul
  7. centrale
  8. coll
  9. dahl
  1. devall
  2. dol
  3. doll
  4. fall
  5. goll
  6. holl
  7. mahal
  8. moll
  9. molle
  1. natal
  2. nidal
  3. pall
  4. qual
  5. reinstall
  6. ryal
  7. sol
  8. tal
  9. woll
  1. wolle
  2. zoll

reverse dictionary (8)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. lall
  1. lollop
  1. lill
  1. lollpoop
  1. labber
  1. lounge
  1. lusk
  1. lop

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Words tagged ‘loll’

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