Coll vs Loll - What's the difference?
coll | loll |
To hug or embrace.
* 1995 , Anthony Burgess, Byrne :
To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
* Dryden
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
* Dryden
To let the tongue hang from the mouth in this way.
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)- They kissed and colled in parks and fields and, better, a / Warm bed, her own.
loll
English
Verb
(en verb)- Void of care, he lolls supine in state.
- 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.
- The triple porter of the Stygian seat, / With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet.
- The ox stood lolling in the furrow.