[f. LOLL v.1]
1. The action or posture of lolling. † Also at loll, upon the (high) loll.
1709. Mrs. Manley, Secret Mem. (1736), I. 21. Who is that graceful Person that appears upon the high Loll in his Chariot and six Horses? Ibid., 152. See that beautiful Gentleman at Loll in the next Chariot.
1709. Swift, Tatler, No. 71, ¶ 7. In reading Prayers, he has such a careless Loll, that People are justly offended at his irreverent Posture.
1775. S. J. Pratt, Liberal Opin., lxvii. (1783), II. 256. He was, in short, all laugh, loll, and liberty.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., V. 530. The old abundant city-fare was best,… down to the loll itself O’ the pot-house settle,—better such a bench Than [etc.].
2. One who lolls; an idle person. Also, a thing that lolls, e.g., a tongue.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 84. Then a tayle lyke a dolphin is added Iumbled vp of sauadge fel woulfs, with grislye lol hanging.
1600. Breton, Pasquil’s Mad-cappe, 26. Then let a knaue be knowne to be a knaue,… A Lobbe a Lowte, a heavy Loll a Logge.
a. 1807. J. Skinner, Poet. Pieces (1809), 48. A mischievous pair O’ mawten’d lolls.
3. A pet, a spoilt child. dial.
1728. Morgan, Hist. Algiers, I. Pref. p. xvii. The … Unmannerliness of this Mam’s Loll.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Loll, mother’s loll, a favourite child, the mother’s darling.
1847–78. in Halliwell (Oxon.).
