单词 | lollygag |
释义 | lollygag (once / 513884 pages) v To lollygag is to be slow or idle or lazy. You might say to your dawdling friends, "Don't lollygag! We'll miss our bus!" You lollygag when you take you own sweet time walking to your piano teacher's house, and you also lollygag when you lounge lazily in a hammock under a tree. The word lollygag is an American invention, a slang term that's sometimes spelled lallygag and may stem from the dialectical "tongue" meaning of lolly. WORD FAMILYlollygag: lollygagging USAGE EXAMPLESBush was never known to lollygag on the links. Seattle Times(Nov 06, 2016) Inside the park, they lollygag in meadows along the main road, coexisting easily with the tourists. Wall Street Journal(Aug 19, 2016) If enough last-minute voters quit lollygagging and get their ballots in, that number could improve. Seattle Times(Aug 02, 2016) v loaf about and waste time; dawdle Syn|Hypo|Hyper footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry lurch, prowl loiter about, with no apparent aim be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) |
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