Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To move with a bobbing motion.
- v. Chiefly British To lounge about; loll.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To loll or lounge idly; move heavily or be tossed about.
- n. A sprawl; a flop.
Wiktionary
- v. To walk with a bouncing motion.
- v. To loll or lounge
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Low. To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.
WordNet 3.0
- v. walk clumsily and with a bounce
Etymologies
- Alteration of loll. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But Julia marched on, and started to lollop and then to jog.”
“When I got to the County trials though I met people who put my enthuastic lollop into perspective.”
“We watched a surfing dog lollop frantically in the sand here I'll post more pics on Flickr -- and I remembered, for an instant, the freedom of not needing to be watching anyone, not needing to be "on.”
“Although the town is still accessible only by train or light aircraft, its guesthouses are packed during late summer and autumn, when the vast ice-sheet over the bay melts, forcing around 1,000 bears to lollop around for months on the shore.”
“I don't have time to lollop downstairs, drenched, and whip up some stink-fre towels.”
“I resumed my hat, and the rabbit lolloped a lollop or so out of my way.”
“I on the other hand would marvel at the brisk pace they would lollop off on when we were supposed to be having a leisurely walk....”
“Tinned beef is cold eating, though; and salt water spoils biscuits; and the waves tumble and lollop much the same hour after hour — tumble and lollop all across the horizon.”
“Not everybody could have swum out through that entrance, against a spring-tide and the lollop of the sea; and one dash against the rocks would have settled me.”
“‘The One with green hangings,’ She replied; ‘I have just been at the trouble of getting it ready, and have put fresh sheets upon the Bed; If the Gentleman chooses to lollop and lounge upon it, He may make it again himself for me.’”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lollop’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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Perambulatory
let's move
dawdle, hie, lollop, promenade, stroll, amble, mosey, gallivant, waddle, galumph, traipse, galumph and 3 more...
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Keyboard Hopscotch
You may start on any key. You may repeat a character, or travel to an adjacent key on the keyboard. On my qwerty keyboard, I may follow s with w, e, d, x, z, a, or (repeating) s. (If you use az...
assert, weeds, trews, treed, sewer, sewed, seeds, sawer, sawed, reeds, erred, asses and 65 more...
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When In Entropic~al English Locales.....
Care about your social environment? Save these endangered words from extinction... don't delay, adopt an out~of~date adjective today!
englishable, toesmithing, zwimmer, woad, wherefore, bobance, pediluvium, ruff, anteloquy, februation, lungeous, chalm and 357 more...
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Watership Down
Every time there's a group discussion, I'll remember that it's just a bunch of bunnies sitting around and I'll laugh.
copse, lapine, creosote, stoat, kestrel, lollop, bluebottle, warren, myxomatosis
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Gems from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulg...
Citation: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, unabridged from the original 1811 edition, with a foreword by Max Harris. London: Bibliophile Books, 1984.
Original title page: A Dictio...tuzzy-muzzy, half seas over, hugger mugger, hugotontheonbiqui..., doodle sack, juniper lecture, kate, kent street eject..., jack ketch, davy, abel-wackets, three-legged mare and 370 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, L
lisle, lahar, loupe, labret, latten, luster, lagomorph, lamentation, limicole, lunge, lobtail, latifolious and 182 more...
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Twitchy
The (not always so) smoovements; scattered, oscillating, jerky, and unpredictable.
palpitation, scravel, jactitate, pounce, wobble, vibrate, undulate, didder, effleurage, flail, ague, swerve and 169 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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do the locomotion
Ways of walking, running, skipping, etc. Not included: assisted locomotion (riding, driving, boating). These verbs should more or less fit the paradigm: She _______ (her way) into/out of/through/ar...
stagger, stumble, dart, dash, run, walk, mince, sashay, strut, stride, move, go and 108 more...
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silly, silly words
besnotted, skedaddle, humdinger, pamplemousse, pantalones, underpants gnomes, underoos, herpes zoster, possums, meat slurry, sausage, peevish and 256 more...
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Favorite Words
crunk, ostentatious, shellac, smoot, thrice, somnambulant, nefarious, nostalgic, shenanigans, hooligans, oracle, torr and 142 more...
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The Good Soldier
Words taken from The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
concatenation, vorticist, imagiste, auk, acquaintanceship, perforce, tapageu, jeunes, minuet, outsound, sedulous, goodheartedness and 105 more...
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Words that I like based on the way th...
These are words that have interesting spelling, or just include a collection of letters that I like seeing.
diktat, ossify, claqueur, opaquest, ersatz, awkward, mollusc, lollop, abyss, aloof, waltz, ably and 1 more...
Tweets
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missanthropist To lounge or saunter heavily. Loll-poop, a sluggish sedentary lounger. Literally, one whom is sluggish in the stern.
Rev. Robert Forby, Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830 May 19, 2008
vanishedone 'Atmosphere does not abound. It kind of lollops.'
- John Walker's PC Gamer (UK) review of Martian Gothic Unification Oct 23, 2007