Lolly vs Loll - What's the difference?
lolly | loll |
A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop.
* 2004 , , Feast: Food that Celebrates Life ,
(UK, slang, uncountable) Money.
(Australia, New Zealand) Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of candy.
* 1924 , Frank George Carpenter, Australia, New Zealand and Some Islands of the South Seas ,
* 2002 , R.I.C. Publications, Primary Science ,
* 2008 , ,
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 lolly
is .As a verb loll is
to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.lolly
English
Noun
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- Trim the lolly' sticks, so that you have a stem of about 3–4cm to stick into the cake, and then plunge the sticks of the foreshortened ' lollies into the cake so that the ghoulish faces leer out from their black-frosted graveyard.
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- Leaving the Domain, I walked back to the hotel, noticing the queer signs by the way. One was “Lollies for Sale.” It was over the door of a confectioner?s store where all sorts of candies were displayed.
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- Organise the students into small groups. Send a letter home to the parents stating that the science lesson will involve students eating a small amount of lollies'. Check which students are allowed to eat ' lollies . Students with diabetes will only be able to observe or they could bring their own ‘special’ sweets from home.
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- He looked straight into Frau Diller?s spectacled eyes and said, ‘Mixed lollies , please.’
- Frau Diller smiled.‘Here,’ she said, tossing a single lolly onto the counter. ‘Mix it yourself.’
Synonyms
(confection) * bonbon * candy (US) * confection * sweetDerived terms
* ice lolly * lolly scrambleloll
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.