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lollygag en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
By surface analysis, lolly (“fool, tongue”) + gag (“fool around”). Compare lollypoop. Cited in American dialects from 1871 and attested since at least 1859.
Meanings
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(US, uncountable) Silliness, nonsense.
He likes to do his car up with blacked-out windows, and all that lollygag.
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(US, countable, dated) A useless or worthless person or thing.
The lallygag strolls down the road that leads to Failureville.
Forms
Translations (3)
sh bedastoća (silliness) · de Unsinn (silliness) · fr absurdité (silliness)
lollygag en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
By surface analysis, lolly (“fool, tongue”) + gag (“fool around”). Compare lollypoop. Cited in American dialects from 1871 and attested since at least 1859.
Meanings
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(US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
Stop lollygagging! […] He ate ALL the ship's food! 'Zat your friend? Show him outta here!
1993, Secret of Mana (fantasy):Now this plaintiff thinks how poor he hereafter will have to live, for the sake of old Green's having a fine fat woman to lollygag with.
1889, Albany Law Journal, page 79:
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(US, dated, qualifier:19th-20th centuries) To fool around, especially sexually.
Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden. […] The holding of hands, osculation and constant embracing of WAVES, corpsmen or civilians and sailors or any combination of male and female personnel is a violation of naval discipline. […]
1946, Captain C. F. Behrens, MC, USN, quoted in Time Magazine, volume 47, part 1, page 74, 1946
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(US, dated, qualifier:19th-20th centuries) To effusively (often excessively) display affection.
At the fair the other day George and Sue were lollygagging around like two sick kittens.
1912, Dialect Notes. Vol III (1905-1912). Publication of the American Dialect Society., page 582:
Forms
Synonyms
dog · swing the lead · cop out · goof off · slack · slack off · shrink · shirk · dawdle · procrastinate · malinger · goldbrick · duck · weasel out · shirk · procrastinate · lollygag · flinch · soldier · doss · blow off
Translations (16)
sh besposličariti (dawdle; to avoid work) · fr paresser (dawdle; to avoid work) · sh ljenčariti (dawdle; to avoid work) · grc ῥαθυμέω (dawdle; to avoid work) · fr glander (dawdle; to avoid work) · sh lenstvovati (dawdle; to avoid work) · cs chytat lelky (dawdle; to avoid work) · ru безде́льничать (dawdle; to avoid work) · nl treuzelen (dawdle; to avoid work) · pl bałamucić (dawdle; to avoid work) · pl zbałamucić (dawdle; to avoid work) · de trödeln (dawdle; to avoid work) · cs lelkovat (dawdle; to avoid work) · de schlampen (dawdle; to avoid work) · fr glandouiller (dawdle; to avoid work) · nl lanterfanten (dawdle; to avoid work)