1609. Shakspeare, Troilus and Cressida, i. 3. At this fustie stuffe, The large Achilles on his prest bed lolling, From his deepe chest laughes out a lowd applause.
1640. T. Heywood, Love's Mistress, i. Juno lay lolling in my Uncle's lap.
1676. Etherege, Man of Mode, in Wks. (1704); i. 194. And his looks are more languishing than a lady's when She lolls at stretch in her coach.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Lolpoop. . . . Loll, to Lean on the Elbows; also to put out the Tongue in derision.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, 1. 204. Meantime his lordship lolls within at ease.
1711. Spectator, No. 187. Hyæna can loll in her coach, with something so fixed in her countenance, that it is impossible to conceive her meditation is employed only on her dress and her charms in that posture.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1727. Gay, Beggar's Opera, i. Air 14. Fondly let me loll, Pretty, pretty Poll.
1753. Adventurer, No. 96. I found him in full health, lolling in an easy chair.
1754. Connoisseur, No. 11. The genuine careless loll and easy saunter.
1864. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Bk. iv. ch. xvi. 'I wish to goodness, Ma,' said Lavvy . . . 'that you'd loll a little.'
1872. Figaro, 22 June, 'Lay of the Gallant Yachtsman.' You may see me here, upon the pier, loll lazily to and fro.
1876. M. E. Braddon, Joshua Haggard, x. 'I don't see any harm in a good novel once in a way, if you take your time over it, and don't loll by the fireside half the day, poking your nose into a book and letting your house go to rack and ruin.'
1893. Henley, London Voluntaries, 10. Lingers and lolls, loth to be done with day.
Loller. See Lollpoop.
Lollipop (or Lollypop), subs. (colloquial).—1.
A sweetmeat. Also
lolly.
1823. Grose, Vulgar Tongue, 3rd ed., s.v.
1838. C. Selby, Catching an Heiress, Sc. 2. Our hearts we cheer, with lollypops.
1844. Disraeli, Coningsby, ix. The . . . hopeless votary of lollypop—the opium eater of schoolboys.
1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., i. 215. Hard-bake, almond-toffy, half-*penny lollypops.
1861. Thackeray, Lovel the Widower, i. I would . . . never give these children lollypop.
1876. C. Hindley, Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, p. 101. William Carrol was his partner, or butty, in the lollipop business.
1885. G. A. Sala, in Daily Telegraph, 3 Sept., 5/5. From a perambulator to a packet of lollies or sugarplums.
2. (venery).—The penis. Also ladies' lollipop. For synonyms see Creamstick and Prick.
Lollop, verb. (colloquial).—To
lounge about; to loaf. Hence,
lollop, subs. = a lazybones or
loafer; and lollopy, adj. =
lazy.
1745. C. H. Williams, Place-book, quoted in Notes & Queries, 7 S. iv. 425. Next in lollop'd Sandwich, with negligent grace.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Random, xxxiv. 'You are allowed, on pretence of sickness, to lollop at your ease, while your betters are kept to hard duty!'
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
1865. Masson, Inaugural Address, 13 Nov. What matters it to our judgment of a beautiful poem, it is asked, what was the appearance and personal character of the author—whether he was laborious and independent in his habits, or lolloped on the surface of society, accepting all he could get and paying nobody? With all deference to those who think otherwise I say that it matters a great deal.
1878. Lady Brassey, Voy. of Sunbeam, 1. i. For four long hours . . . we lollopped about in the trough of a heavy sea.
