Lol vs Lop - What's the difference?
lol | lop |
(Internet slang, text messaging, intransitive)
(archaic) Used in song as a nonsense syllable.
English internet laughter slang
English terms with multiple etymologies
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(usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
To allow to hang down.
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
(US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
* 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
wolf
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As verbs the difference between lol and lop
is that lol is alternative form of LOL|lang=en while lop is to cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.As nouns the difference between lol and lop
is that lol is Loyal Orange Lodge, a prefix given to all branches of the Loyal Orange Order. For example, LOL 1 is Portadown branch while lop is a flea.As an interjection lol
is alternative form of LOL|lang=en.lol
English
Etymology 1
Verb
Etymology 2
Interjection
(en interjection)lop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .References
* * * * * * * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) loppe.Verb
(lopp)- to lop the head
Synonyms
* (to cut off)Derived terms
* lopper, loppersSee also
* defalcateNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- (Mortimer)
References
*Etymology 3
from lopsided.Noun
(en noun)- "He's a lop ; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."