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dallop

dallop noun: a tuft or clump, especially an unploughed patch amongst fields of corn. Also the alternative form of dollop.

Noun

dallop (plural dallops)

  1. (East-Anglia, Essex, obsolete) A tuft or clump, especially an unploughed patch amongst fields of corn.
    • Of barlie the longest and greenest ye find, / leaue standing by dallops, till time ye doo bind1573, Thomas Tusser, “Augusts husbandrie”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, London: English Dialect Society, published 1878, page 131

Also used as

dallop is also the alternative form of dollop.

Forms of dallop

pluraldallops

Origin of dallop

Origin unknown. Perhaps cognate with Norwegian dialect dolp, a lump.

Questions about dallop

What does dallop mean?
Dallop means a tuft or clump, especially an unploughed patch amongst fields of corn.
What part of speech is dallop?
Dallop is a noun.
What is the plural of dallop?
The plural of dallop is dallops.

Words near dallop in the dictionary

  1. Dallmanns
  2. Dallmans
  3. dallol
  4. dallols
  5. Dallon
  6. dallop
  7. dallops
  8. dalls
  9. dally
  10. dallying
  11. dallyingly

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