Also jowlop, ? jellop: see JOLLOPED. [app. f. JOWL2, joll, jole + *lop, LAP sb.1 2: cf. DEWLAP, which also occurs in the same or a cognate sense (1 b).
(It is tempting to conjecture that dewlap itself, of which the first element is unexplained, may have originated in some popular perversion of jowlap or jewlap; but at present this is not supported by evidence or analogy.)]
The wattle of a cock, turkey, or other fowl.
1705. trans. Bosman’s Guinea, 262. His Bill is Yellow; from whence to the Head grows out on each side a red Jollop.
1866. H. Clark, Introd. Her., Jellop [see JOLLOPED].
1890. Cent. Dict., Jewlap.
