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loblolly Now dial.|ˈlɒblɒlɪ|
Also 7 lap-, 8–9 lop-.
[perh. onomatopœic: cf. the dialectal lob ‘to bubble while in process of boiling, said esp. of porridge’, also ‘to eat or drink up noisily’ (E.D.D.), lolly (obs. Devon), ‘broth, soup, or other food boiled in a pot’ (ibid.).]
1. a. Thick gruel or spoon-meat, freq. referred to as a rustic or nautical dish or simple medicinal remedy; burgoo. † Hence, a ship-doctor's medicines.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xxxv. §2. 242 The lowe countreymen..vse it for their meate called Wermose, and with vs Loblollie. 1620Markham Farew. Husb. (1625) 132 It makes an excellent grewell, or lob-lolly which is very soueraigne at Sea. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. iii. (1651) 326 There is a difference (he grumbles) between Laplolly and Phesants. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 31 This we call Lob-lollie. But the Negroes, when they come to be fed with this,..cry out, O! O! no more Lob-lol. 1694Motteux Rabelais i. iv. 13 What a filthy deal of Lob-lolly was here, to swell and wamble in her Guts. 1746Exmoor Scold. 189 (E.D.S.) And nif et be Loblolly, tha wut slop et oll up. 1750[see burgoo]. 1786[see loblolly man in 4].
b. U.S. colloq. A mud-hole.
1865Memphis (Tennessee) Daily Argus 19 Nov. 3/1 We noticed a party of two or three men attempting to clean off one of them..but as fast as they cleaned away the lob-lolly, the lob-lolly rolled back again. 1899Ade Doc Horne i. 6 In those days a mud-hole with this deceptive dry crust on top was called a ‘loblolly’. 1903A. Adams Log Cowboy xi. 164 His ineffectual struggles caused him to sink farther to the flanks in the loblolly which the tramping of the cattle had caused. 1944in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. ii. 58.
2. A bumpkin, rustic, boor.
1604Breton Grimello's Fort. (Grosart) 9/2 This Loblollie, with slauering lips, would be making loue. 1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 86 He Lies gaping like a great Loblolly. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xxi, That jolt-headed Loblolly of a Carter. 1894R. Leighton Wreck Golden Fleece 91 Blest if you aren't worth a dozen o' these Low's⁓toff loplollies.
3. = loblolly pine.
1819E. Dana Geogr. Sk. Western Country 195 Contiguous to the Florida line, a space, occupying in width from 50 to 60 miles, is timbered with cypress, loblolly, and long and short leafed pine. 1849Nat. Encycl. I. 355 The forest trees in..the south [of Alabama are] pine, cypress, and loblolly.
4. attrib. and Comb., as loblolly feast, loblolly-making, loblolly-pot; loblolly bay, an ornamental tree, Gordonia Lasianthus, of the southern United States; loblolly boy, an attendant who assists a ship's surgeon and his mates in their duties; also dial. an errand-boy, man of all work; † loblolly doctor, a sailor's name for a ship's doctor; † loblolly lamb = sense 2; loblolly man Naut., a surgeon's mate; loblolly pine, the tree Pinus Tæda, growing in swamps in the southern United States; loblolly sweetwood, a West Indian name for Sciadophyllum Jacquinii (Treas. Bot. 1866); loblolly tree = loblolly wood; loblolly whitewood, Nectandra sanguinea; loblolly-wood, Cupania glabra; also Pisonia cordata (Treas. Bot.).
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 306 Bay, *Loblolly, Gordonia. Ibid. 317 Loblolly Bay, Hypericum. 1770Ellis in Phil. Trans. LX. 519 That elegant evergreen-tree, called in South Carolina and the Floridas, the Loblolly⁓bay, or Alcea Floridana.
1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xxvii. (1804) 178 Among the sailors I was known as the *Loblolly Boy. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer lvi, The loblolly boy, that is, the young man who had charge of the laboratory where all the medicines were kept. 1875Fam. Herald 23 Oct. 415/2 He began life as a ‘loblolly boy’ on board a barge. 1899F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 273 They were just loblolly boys, at every one's beck and call.
1710C. Shadwell Fair Quaker Deal i. 15 [Sailor speaks] Our Rogue of a *Loblolly Doctor, being not satisfied with his two Pences, must have a Note for ten Months' Pay for every Cure.
1645R. Beake Lett. fr. Sommer Isl. in Prynne's Discov. Prodig. Blazing Stars App. 3 A certaine Feast, held every week at severall houses, which Feast they called a *loblolly Feast.
1600Hosp. Incur. Fooles A iij b, Those notted, grosse, and *loblolly-lams.
1706[E. Ward] Wooden World Diss. (1708) 64 The Mystery of *Loblolly-making.
1786Mrs. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson 285 He [Dr. Johnson] asked an officer what some place was called, and received for answer, that it was where the *loplolly man kept his loplolly.
1760Acts Gen. Ass. Georgia (1881) 219 Squared Timber that shall be made of swamp or *loblolly pine.
1637T. Morton New Eng. Canaan (1883) 342 [He] called to his wife to set on the *loblolly pot. 1806Naval Mag. XV. 241 We found several..girls stewing venison..in a loblolly-pot.
1750G. Hughes Barbadoes 143 The *Loblolly tree. This is a middle-sized tree.
1756P. Browne Jamaica 214 *Loblolly whitewood, or White Sweetwood.
Ibid. 178 *Loblolly-wood. This shrubby tree..rises generally to the height of 12 or 14 feet. |