1854 C. Spence Clara Morison II. ix. 102 Fanny ran away to the nearest lolly shop, and all her brothers and sisters followed her.

1860 C. M. Yonge Friarswood Post-Office vii. 112 You may take your choice—gingerbread-nuts, or bits of cocoa-nut; or, what's jolliest, lollies with gin inside 'em!

1860 C. M. Yonge Friarswood Post-Office x. 189 The children..bought all the ‘lollies’.

1862 Illustr. Melbourne Post 36 July The gorgeous decorations at the lolly stall.

1864 H. Weatherley Treat. Art Boiling Sugar 5 Whether they consist of the ‘Loggets’ or ‘Cushies’ of the Eastern part..the ‘Humbugs’ or ‘Lollys’ of the South..they each have their votaries.

1871 J. J. Simpson Recit. 24 Lollies that the children like.

1874 V. Pyke Adventures G. W. Pratt iii. iv. 78 One of them filled her lap with cakes and ‘lollies’ for the ‘bairnie’.

1882 A. J. Boyd Old Colonials 165 Cakes and lollies.

1886 A. R. Butler Glimpses Maori Land iii. 42 A friend of mine goes to the stores..and says, ‘I want some lollies.’

1898 ‘H.’ Grain of Gold ii. 4 The first part of every child's education..was to catch the old man by the coat tails and get a pat on the head and a ‘lollie’.

1899 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Jan. 11/3 A crowd of well-dressed women amused themselves by throwing lollies, bits of ginger, and small fruits into the mouths of a straw-hat push on the other side.

1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby v. 136 Men, when they wanted to show their appreciation of her services, sent her a box of sweets—or lollies, as they are called out here.

1915 E. G. Pilling Diary 21 Jan. in Anzac Memory (1933) 119 Everyone is eating my lollies. They chuck off when a parcel of lollies arrives, but none are lacking on the eating stakes.

1935 ‘G. Orwell’ Clergyman's Daughter ii. 131 London hawkers would come with baskets of doughnuts or water ices or ‘halfpenny lollies’.

1936 C. R. Allen Poor Scholar i. 17 Even Herby fought down a longing for liquorice as they went by his favourite ‘lolly’ shop.

1955 Times 13 June 4/4 The ‘real menace of sweets’ to dental health was the constant sucking of lollies or other sweets, particularly at night.

1955 Times 6 Aug. 8/4 A merry little cottage is painted in clear white and lolly pink.

1959 B. Comyns Vet's Daughter xii. 100 A scraggy woman with a fringe, dressed in lolly pink.

1961 Coast to Coast 1959–60 161 Anyway, Vivi, you look nice in those new shoes. Here's threepence for lollies.

1964 Weekly News (Auckland) 10 June 3/3 The most popular event was a giant lolly scramble. Hundreds of children spent a few minutes of furious activity seizing their share of about 7000 sweets tossed among them.

1969 M. Drabble Waterfall 87 He had acquired eleven wooden lollie sticks.

1969 Landfall 23 99 What was an award for merit promises now to become a lolly-scramble.

1972 J. Wilson Hide & Seek i. 8 She looked longingly at the ice-cream van... ‘Can I have a lolly?’

1924 H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match v. 160 He..hit it—a ‘lolly’ into the hands of point.

1960 J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Austral. xv. 128 May did not last long..giving Benaud a lolly-catch at gully-slip.

1943 M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 61 This 'ere bloke touches the Guv'ment fer a nice drop er lolly.

1958 Spectator 14 Feb. 194/2 Next year's Budget gives fistfuls of lolly away to everybody.

1965 Listener 28 Oct. 677/2 A young English con-man..stands to gain lots of lovely lolly.

1971 Ink 12 June 14/1 Bernie's salesmen kept bringing in the lolly during the..boom.

1973 Scotsman 13 Feb. 8/3 The rank and file Bishops would be better off, financially, if they accepted jobs as Principals in the Egg, Poultry and Potato Division of the Ministry of Agriculture... In terms of lolly they would be better off as Senior Officers in the Land, Drainage and Water Supply Division of the Ministry.

1973 G. Moffat Deviant Death i. 14 There's only one person bringing in the lolly in that house.

1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. p. xii Lolly, soft ice, or congealed snow floating in the water when it first begins to freeze.

1889 W. H. Withrow Our own Country: Canada 68 The distance to Cape Traverse is about nine miles, part solid ice, part drifting ice, part water, and sometimes a great deal of broken ice or ‘lolly’.

1895 Dial. Notes 1 379 Lolly, ice and snow in the water along the shore... It is the hardest kind of thing to get the boat through.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 299 Lolly, soft ice beginning to form in a harbor.