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Coll vs Loll - What's the difference?

coll | loll |

As a proper noun coll

is a medieval english short form of the male given name nicholas; very rare today.

As a verb loll is

to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.

coll

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To hug or embrace.
  • * 1995 , Anthony Burgess, Byrne :
  • They kissed and colled in parks and fields and, better, a / Warm bed, her own.

    loll

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
  • * Dryden
  • Void of care, he lolls supine in state.
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
  • The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  • To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
  • * Dryden
  • The triple porter of the Stygian seat, / With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet.
  • To let the tongue hang from the mouth in this way.
  • The ox stood lolling in the furrow.

    Synonyms

    * slack * relax