loblollyn.
/ˈlɒbˌlɒli/, U.S. /ˈlɑbˌlɑli/ Now dialect.
1.
a. Thick gruel or spoon-meat, frequently referred to as a rustic or nautical dish or simple medicinal remedy; burgoo. †Hence, a ship-doctor's medicines.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun]
polentaOE
papelotec1400
pottagea1500
crowdy-mowdy?a1513
drowsen1519
pease porridge?1548
plum pottage1574
sowens1582
grout1587
orgementa1590
plum porridge1591
loblolly1597
pease pottage1600
girt-brew1620
washbrew1620
lentil-porridge1622
hominy1630
porridgea1643
samp1643
nettle-pottage1659
nettle-porridge1661
crowdie1668
suppawn1670
mush1671
rockahominy1674
stirabouta1691
praiseach1698
sagamité1698
brochan1700
atole1716
burgoo1750
purry1751
fungee1789
pepper porridge1803
kasha1808
mamaliga1808
skilligalee1819
bean-porridge1821
skilly1839
sap porridge1842
corn-mush1846
oatmeal mush1850
pap1858
ugali1860
oatmeal1873
mealie-meal1880
mealie-pap1880
uji1889
sadza1899
nsima1907
putu papa1910
posho1927
putu1949
ogi1957
whey-porridge-
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] > medicinal broths
loblolly1597
flesh-broth1676
succory broth1809
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > of ship's doctor
loblolly1786
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 242 The lowe countrey men..vse it for their meate called Wermose, and with vs Loblollie.
1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husb. (1625) 132 It makes an excellent grewell, or lob-lolly which is very soueraigne at Sea.
1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. iii. iii. 268 There is a difference (he grumbles) betweene Laplolly and Phesants.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 31 This we call Lob-lollie. But the Negres, when they come to be fed with this,..crie out, O! O! no more Lob-lob.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Wks. i. iv. 13 What a filthy deal of Lob-lolly was here, to swell and wamble in her Guts.
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 11 And nif et be Loblolly, tha wut slop et oll up.
1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 206 Whole Greets boiled in Water till they burst, and then mixt with Butter, and so eaten with Spoons, [which was] formerly called Loblolly (now burgoo).
1786 H. L. 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.
b. U.S. colloquial. A mud-hole.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > wet place, mire, or slough
sloughc900
mooreOE
letch1138
mire1219
sougha1300
dew1377
slop?a1400
flashc1440
slothc1440
slonk1488
slot?a1500
rilling1610
slab1610
water-gall1657
slunkc1700
slack1719
mudhole1721
bog-hole1788
spew1794
wetness1805
stabble1821
slob1836
sludge1839
soak1839
mudbath1856
squire-trap1859
loblolly1865
glue-pot1892
swelter1894
poaching1920
1865 Memphis (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.
1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne i. 6 In those days a mud-hole with this deceptive dry crust on top was called a ‘loblolly’.
1903 A. Adams Log of 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.
1944 in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. ii. 58.
2. A bumpkin, rustic, peasant.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > ignorant
chuffc1440
lob1533
lobcocka1556
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
gran1591
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
clodhopper1699
bumpkinet1714
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
farmer1864
sheepshagger1958
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person
bearc1395
carter1509
kensy?a1513
clumpertonc1534
club1542
lout1548
clinchpoop1555
clout-shoe1563
loose-breech1575
clown1583
hoyden1593
boor1598
kill-courtesy1600
rustic1600
clunch1602
loblolly1604
camel1609
clusterfist1611
loon1619
Grobian1621
rough diamonda1625
hoyde1636
clodhopper1699
roughhead1726
indelicate1741
vulgarian1809
snob1838
vulgarist1847
yahoo1861
cave-dweller1865
polisson1866
mucker1884
caveman1907
wampus1912
yobbo1922
yenta1923
yob1927
rude1946
cafone1949
no-neck1961
ocker1971
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > rude or ignorant
chuffc1440
mobarda1450
lob1533
lobcocka1556
clown1565
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
peasant1576
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
loblolly lamb1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
champkina1652
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
country cousin1692
clodhopper1699
hawbuck1787
Johnny Raw1803
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
country jake1845
Hoosier1846
hayseed1851
Reuben1855
scissorbill1876
agricole1882
country jay1888
rube1891
jasper1896
farmer1903
stump jumper1936
woop woop1936
potato head1948
no-neck1961
1604 N. Breton Grimellos Fortunes (Grosart) 9/2 This Loblollie, with slauering lips, would be making loue.
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 86 He Lies gaping like a great Loblolly.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xxi That jolt-headed Loblolly of a Carter.
1894 R. Leighton Wreck Golden Fleece 91 Blest if you aren't worth a dozen o' these Low's~toff loplollies.
3. = loblolly pine n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies
pine treeeOE
pineOE
pine-nut treec1330
pineapplec1390
pineapple treea1398
mountain pine1597
pine1597
mountain pine1601
frankincense1611
rosin flower?1611
black pine1683
Scotch pine1706
yellow pine1709
Jersey pine1743
loblolly pine1760
mugoa1768
Scots pine1774
Scotch fir1777
arrow plant1779
scrub pine1791
Georgia pine1796
old field pine1797
tamarack1805
grey pine1810
pond pine1810
New Jersey pine1818
loblolly1819
Corsican pine1824
celery-top pine1827
toatoa1831
heavy-wooded pine1836
nut pine1845
celery pine1851
celery-topped pine1851
sugar-pine1853
western white pine1857
Jeffrey1858
Korean pine1858
lodge-pole pine1859
jack pine1863
whitebark pine1864
twisted pine1866
Monterey pine1868
tanekaha1875
chir1882
slash-pine1882
celery-leaved pine1883
knee-pine1884
knobcone pine1884
matsu1884
meadow pine1884
Alaska pine1890
limber pine1901
bristlecone pine1908
o-matsu1916
insignis1920
radiata1953
1819 E. Dana Geogr. Sketches 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.
1849 Nat. Encycl. I. 355 The forest trees in..the south [of Alabama are] pine, cypress, and loblolly.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
loblolly feast n.
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1645 R. Beake Lett. from Sommer Island in Prynne Discov. Prodig. Blazing Stars App. 3 A certaine Feast, held every week at severall houses, which Feast they called a loblolly Feast.
loblolly-making n.
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1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 64 The Mystery of Loblolly-making.
loblolly-pot n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pot for specific food
beef-potc1500
porridge pot1578
loblolly-pot1637
stock-pot1845
tatie pot1871
couscoussier1953
1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan iii. xxxi. 186 [He] called to his wife to set on the loblolly pot.
1806 Naval Mag. 15 241 We found several..girls stewing venison..in a loblolly-pot.
C2. † loblolly doctor n. Obsolete a sailor's name for a ship's doctor.† loblolly lamb n. Obsolete = sense 2.
loblolly bay n. an ornamental tree, Gordonia Lasianthus, of the southern United States.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > Gordonia trees or loblolly bay
loblolly bay1760
Gordonia1771
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 306 Bay, Loblolly, Gordonia.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 317 Loblolly Bay, Hypericum.
1771 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 519 That elegant evergreen-tree, called in South Carolina and the Floridas, the Loblolly~bay, or Alcea Floridana.
loblolly boy n. an attendant who assists a ship's surgeon and his mates in their duties; also dialect an errand-boy, man of all work.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > assisting in surgery > on board ship
surgeon's mate1591
loblolly boy1748
loblolly man1786
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > ship's doctor or assistant
surgeon1591
loblolly doctor1710
loblolly boy1748
loblolly man1786
mate1811
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxvii. 243 Among whom [i.e. the sailors] I was known by the name of Loblolly Boy.
1836 E. Howard Rattlin lvi The loblolly boy, that is, the young man who had charge of the laboratory where all the medicines were kept.
1875 Family Herald 23 Oct. 415/2 He began life as a ‘loblolly boy’ on board a barge.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 273 They were just loblolly boys, at every one's beck and call.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > military physician > navy
surgeon1591
loblolly doctor1710
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > ship's doctor or assistant
surgeon1591
loblolly doctor1710
loblolly boy1748
loblolly man1786
mate1811
1710 C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of 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.
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1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles A iij b Those notted, grosse, and loblolly-lams.
loblolly man n. Nautical a surgeon's mate.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > assisting in surgery > on board ship
surgeon's mate1591
loblolly boy1748
loblolly man1786
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > ship's doctor or assistant
surgeon1591
loblolly doctor1710
loblolly boy1748
loblolly man1786
mate1811
1786 H. L. 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.
loblolly pine n. the tree Pinus Tæda, growing in swamps in the southern United States.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies
pine treeeOE
pineOE
pine-nut treec1330
pineapplec1390
pineapple treea1398
mountain pine1597
pine1597
mountain pine1601
frankincense1611
rosin flower?1611
black pine1683
Scotch pine1706
yellow pine1709
Jersey pine1743
loblolly pine1760
mugoa1768
Scots pine1774
Scotch fir1777
arrow plant1779
scrub pine1791
Georgia pine1796
old field pine1797
tamarack1805
grey pine1810
pond pine1810
New Jersey pine1818
loblolly1819
Corsican pine1824
celery-top pine1827
toatoa1831
heavy-wooded pine1836
nut pine1845
celery pine1851
celery-topped pine1851
sugar-pine1853
western white pine1857
Jeffrey1858
Korean pine1858
lodge-pole pine1859
jack pine1863
whitebark pine1864
twisted pine1866
Monterey pine1868
tanekaha1875
chir1882
slash-pine1882
celery-leaved pine1883
knee-pine1884
knobcone pine1884
matsu1884
meadow pine1884
Alaska pine1890
limber pine1901
bristlecone pine1908
o-matsu1916
insignis1920
radiata1953
1760 in Acts Gen. Assembly Georgia (1881) 219 Squared Timber that shall be made of swamp or loblolly pine.
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loblolly sweetwood n. a West Indian name for Sciadophyllum Jacquinii ( Treasury Bot. 1866).
loblolly tree n. = loblolly-wood n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > other timber trees
jasmine-wood1712
fiddlewood1714
loblolly tree1750
rosewood1755
loblolly-wood1756
horn-beech1771
hop hornbeam1785
olive wood1866
myrtle1880
pounce tree1884
rosebush1889
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 143 The Loblolly tree. This is a middle-sized tree.
loblolly whitewood n. Nectandra sanguinea.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies
sweetwood1607
mastic1657
acajou1666
bastard locust tree1670
bastard locust tree1670
alligator wood1696
muskwood1696
lancewood1697
rodwood1716
cog-wood1725
soapwood1733
down tree?1740
pigeon plum1743
break-axe tree1756
horse-wood1756
loblolly whitewood1756
Spanish elm1756
trumpet-tree1756
ahuehuete1778
ocote1787
locust tree1795
Madeira wood1796
peroba1813
roble1814
louro1816
cecropia1824
purple heart1825
wallaba1825
trumpet-wood1836
gumbo-limbo1837
poui1838
quebracho1839
snake-wood1843
yacca1843
horseflesh wood1851
necklace tree1858
Honduras rosewood1860
turanira1862
softwood1864
wattle-wood1864
balsa tree1866
primavera1871
rauli1874
lemon-wood1879
wheel-tree1882
Spanish stopper1883
gurgeon-stopper1884
pinkwood-tree1884
stopper1884
sloth-tree1885
imbaubaa1893
Spanish cedar1907
amarant1909
Parana pine1916
imbuya1919
mastic-bully1920
banak1921
timbo1924
becuiba1934
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 214 Loblolly Whitewood, or white Sweetwood.
loblolly-wood n. Cupania glabra; also Pisonia cordata ( Treasury Bot.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > other timber trees
jasmine-wood1712
fiddlewood1714
loblolly tree1750
rosewood1755
loblolly-wood1756
horn-beech1771
hop hornbeam1785
olive wood1866
myrtle1880
pounce tree1884
rosebush1889
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 178 Loblolly-wood. This shrubby tree..rises, generally, to the height of 12 or 14 feet.
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