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lollygag

verb
/ˈlɒlɪɡæɡ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, lolly (“fool, tongue”) + gag (“fool around”). Compare lollypoop. Cited in American dialects from 1871 and attested since at least 1859.

Definitions

  1. To dawdle

    To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.

    • Stop lollygagging! […] He ate ALL the ship's food! 'Zat your friend? Show him outta here!
    • Now this plaintiff thinks how poor he hereafter will have to live, for the sake of old Green's having a fine fat woman to lollygag with.

  2. To fool around, especially sexually.

  3. To effusively (often excessively) display affection.

    • At the fair the other day George and Sue were lollygagging around like two sick kittens.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Silliness, nonsense.

      • He likes to do his car up with blacked-out windows, and all that lollygag.

    2. A useless or worthless person or thing.

      • The lallygag strolls down the road that leads to Failureville.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA