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lollipop, n. colloq.|ˈlɒlɪpɒp|
Also lollypop.
[Of obscure formation: cf. lolly (north. dial.) the tongue.]
a. dial. The name of a particular kind of sweetmeat, consisting chiefly of sugar or treacle, that dissolves easily in the mouth; pl. (formerly also collect. sing.) sweetmeats in general.
b. Now, a sweet or water-ice on stick.
1784London Chron. 17–20 Jan. 72/3 She confessed..that a certain person..had enticed her to commit it [sc. the robbery], and given her sweetmeats, called lolly-pops. 1796Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. 3), Lollipops, sweet lozenges purchased by children. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Tale Drury Lane, And buy crisp parliament with lollypops. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. i, That in the petticoat age we may fearlessly indulge in lollipop. 1844Disraeli Coningsby i. ix, The irreclaimable and hopeless votary of lollypop. 1860All Year Round No. 46. 459 Upright glass⁓cases such as country dealers keep lollypops in. 1884Sala Journ. due South i. xv. (1887) 205 The consumption of lollipops [was] phenomenal. 1944W. de la Mare Coll. Rhymes & Verses 41 A bottle of lollipops loved by Bess Stood apart on a window shelf. 1953C. T. Williams Chocolate & Confectionery vi. 104 The B.C.H. Hollow Sleeve Drop Roller Machine may be augmented by a special attachment for the production of lollipops. 1959[see brick n.1 4]. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 401 He is as pretentious as a rich whore, as sentimental as a lollypop. 1965Hutton & Bode Simple Sweetmaking iv. 39 The lollipops have wax or cellophane paper twisted or tied round them.
c. fig. ‘Luscious’ literary composition. Also, a showy or non-serious performance.
a1849[see d]. 1856T. Cholmondeley Let. in Atlantic Monthly (1893) LXXII. 750/2 There is no poetry, and very little or no literature. We are drenched with mawkish lollipops, and clothed in tawdry rags.
d. attrib., as lollipop shop, lollipop stall, lollipop woman, etc.; spec. of or pertaining to a person using a circular sign on a stick to stop traffic so that children may cross the road. Less commonly (occas. in non-attrib. use), the pole bearing a disc used by such a person.
1834A. Fonblanque Eng. under 7 Administr. (1837) III. 13 Lollipop stalls. 1845Thackeray Leg. Rhine ix, in George Cruikshank's Table-Bk. Sept. 193 Ask the youth whether the lollypop-shop does not attract him? 1848― Van. Fair xxiii, Marching with great dignity towards the stall of a neighbouring lollipop-woman. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. II. 32 His [Dryden's] lolly-pop adulteration of King Lear. 1952J. Masefield So Long to Learn 203 Many of the speakers were of a kind that I called ‘lollipop-speakers’: they spoke every kind of verse as if it were a caramel to be sucked, without any glimmering of a notion that the words had any meaning. 1958Times 16 Oct. 4/6 His [Beecham's] reluctance to offer ‘lollipop’ encores. 1959Courier & Advertiser (Dundee) 28 Mar. 5/6 These old people, commonly called ‘lollipop men’,..do a good job. 1959Punch 16 Sept. 172/2 That will be no more than the ‘lollipop’ innings of a Compton, the once-in-a-while reappearance of a Cotton or a Kyle. 1960S. Potter Lang. in Mod. World iv. 49 The traffic warden (or lollipop-man as the children affectionately call him) in his white overall makes himself prominent by raising his red disk on high: ‘Stop, children crossing.’ 1962Spectator 13 Apr. 463/2 What will inevitably be known as the ‘lollipop’ tax. 1969Sunday Times 9 Mar. 5 Top-hatted they stream from the school, one boy picks up the lollipop sign—which is hidden in a bush—and traffic is brought to a halt. 1969Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 23 June 7/7 Civilian wardens to supervise school crossings..were used extensively overseas, and were known as ‘lollipops’ from the big discs on long poles they used to control vehicular traffic through school crossings. 1970Sunday Times 25 Jan. 13 Mr. Blackmore, holding the lollipop that stops most traffic, said, ‘That offside brake seems to be pulling.’ 1970P. Villiard Pract. Candymaking Cookbk. v. 62, I am going to start your candymaking career off with some recipes for lollipops... You will need a supply of lollipop sticks. 1971Daily Tel. 27 July 13/1 (heading) Drivers must stop for lollipop men. Ibid., Drivers stopped at school crossings by lollipop patrols must not proceed until the ‘Stop, children crossing’ sign has been taken away. 1972Times 3 July 12/2 Colin Carr chose, mistakenly for a student, a lollipop, a Popper Polonaise, rather than good red meat, but it served to show off an enviable fluency on the instrument. 1972Sat. Titbits 21 Oct. 20/1 Outside the school a ‘lollipop lady’ was holding up the traffic. 1972Times 16 Dec. 12/2 We were on the lollipop patrol escorting the kids when they all scattered. 1973Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 16 Mar. 9/4 They watch the children in and out of school, something which on the mainland is done by a single elderly man with a ‘lollipop stick’.
Hence ˈlollipop v. trans., to treat to lollipops.
1837Fraser's Mag. XV. 337 Mere children in matters of taste, fit only to be lollypopped by his ‘lady’. |