Lowly vs Lolly - What's the difference?
lowly | lolly |
Not high; not elevated in place; low.
* Dryden
Low in rank or social importance.
* Alexander Pope
Not lofty or sublime; humble.
* Dryden
Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
* Bible, Matthew xi. 29
In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
*, Bk.XXI, Ch.x:
*:And there was none of these other knyghtes but they redde in bookes and holpe for to synge Masse, and range bellys, and dyd lowly al maner of servyce.
In a low condition; meanly.
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 , ,
As an adjective lowly
is not high; not elevated in place; low.As an adverb lowly
is in a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.As a proper noun lolly is
.lowly
English
Adjective
(er)- lowly lands
- One common right the great and lowly claims.
- these rural poems, and their lowly strain
- Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.
Adverb
(en adverb)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.’