Now dial. Also 7 lap-, 8–9 lop-. [perh. onomatopœic: cf. the dialectal lob ‘to bubble while in process of boiling, said esp. of porridge,’ also ‘to eat or drink up noisily’ (E. D. D.), lolly (obs. Devon), ‘broth, soup, or other food boiled in a pot’ (ibid.).]
1. Thick gruel or spoon-meat, freq. referred to as a rustic or nautical dish or simple medicinal remedy; burgoo. † Hence, a ship-doctor’s medicines.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. xxxv. § 2. 242. The lowe countreymen … vse it for their meate called Wermose, and with vs Loblollie.
1620. Markham, Farew. Husb. (1625), 132. It makes an excellent grewell, or lob-lolly which is very soueraigne at Sea.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. iii. III. (1651), 326. There is a difference (he grumbles) between Laplolly and Phesants.
1657. R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 31. This we call Lob-lollie. But the Negroes, when they come to be fed with this,… cry out, O! O! no more Lob-lol.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, I. iv. 13. What a filthy deal of Lob-lolly was here, to swell and wamble in her Guts.
1746. Exmoor Scolding, 189 (E. D. S.). And nif et be Loblolly, tha wut slop et oll up.
1750. [see BURGOO].
1786. [see loblolly man in 4].
2. A bumpkin, rustic, boor.
1604. Breton, Grimello’s Fort. (Grosart), 9/2. This Loblollie, with slauering lips, would be making loue.
1675. Cotton, Scoffer Scoft, 86. He Lies gaping like a great Loblolly.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, 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. ? Short for loblolly bay.
1849. Nat. Encycl., I. 355. The forest trees in … the south [of Alabama are] pine, cypress, and loblolly.
4. attrib. and Comb., as loblolly feast, -making, -pot; loblolly bay, an ornamental tree, Gordonia Lasianthus, of the southern United States; loblolly boy, an attendant who assists a ship’s surgeon and his mates in their duties; also dial. an errand-boy, man of all work; † loblolly doctor, a sailor’s name for a ship’s doctor; † loblolly lamb = sense 2; loblolly man Naut., a surgeon’s mate; loblolly pine, the tree Pinus Tæda, growing in swamps in the southern United States; loblolly sweetwood, a West Indian name for Sciadophyllum Jacquinii (Treas. Bot., 1866); loblolly tree = loblolly wood; loblolly whitewood, Nectandra sanguinea; loblolly wood, Cupania glabra; also Pisonia cordata (Treas. Bot.).
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 306. Bay, *Loblolly, Gordonia. Ibid., 317. Loblolly Bay, Hypericum.
1770. Ellis, in Phil. Trans., LX. 519. That elegant evergreen-tree, called in South Carolina and the Floridas, the Loblolly-bay, or Alcea Floridana.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand., xxvii. (1804), 178. Among the sailors I was known as the *Loblolly Boy.
1836. E. Howard, R. Reefer, lvi. The loblolly boy, that is, the young man who had charge of the laboratory where all the medicines were kept.
1875. Fam. Herald, 23 Oct., 415/2. He began life as a ‘loblolly boy’ on board a barge.
1899. F. T. Bullen, Log Sea-waif, 273. They were just loblolly boys, at every one’s beck and call.
1710. C. Shadwell, Fair Quaker 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.
1645. R. Beake, Lett. fr. Sommer Isl., in Prynne’s Discov. Blazing Stars, App. 3. A certaine Feast, held every week at severall houses, which Feast they called a *loblolly Feast.
1600. Hosp. Incur. Fooles, A iij 6. Those notted, grosse, and *loblolly-lams.
1706. [E. Ward], Wooden World Dissected (1708), 64. The Mystery of *Loblolly-making.
1786. Mrs. 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.
1760. Acts Gen. Ass. Georgia (1881), 219. Squared Timber that shall be made of swamp or *loblolly pine.
1637. T. Morton, New Eng. Canaan (1883), 342. [He] called to his wife to set on the *loblolly pot.
1806. Naval Mag., XV. 241. We found several … girls stewing venison … in a loblolly-pot.
1750. G. Hughes, Barbados, 143. The *Loblolly tree. This is a middle-sized tree.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica, 214. *Loblolly whitewood, or White Sweetwood. Ibid., 178. *Loblolly-wood. This shrubby tree … rises generally to the height of 12 or 14 feet.
