lallygag
lallygag noun: horseplay, fooling around.
Noun
lallygag (countable and uncountable, plural lallygags)
- Horseplay, fooling around.
- Mr. Biggs paused and turned the flesh of the succulent lobster over with his finger. The gentleman inside addressed him: ‘Try er lobstaw, bossy?’ ‘Ain't got no money,’ said Mr. Biggs, still fingering the morsels. ‘Oh, come now, none o' that ere lallygag,’ responded the gentleman.1862 August, Harper's Magazine
- A layabout, one who lallygags.
- ["]Why, you ought to have been ready half an hour ago!" she said, pushing him into his room fondly. "You're a lackadaisical lallygag, that's what you are! Do you realize how much you've got to do to-day, Mr. Bonistelle?"1913, Gelett Burgess, Love in a Hurry, Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 8
- Synonyms:
- lollygagger, bum, couch potato, dawdler, deadbeat, dogfucker, do-naught, do-nothing, dosser, idler
Verb
lallygag (third-person singular simple present lallygags, present participle lallygagging, simple past and past participle lallygagged)
- To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
- And don't you dare to lallygag about so that you don't get home till after dark, or I'll have every policeman in Parañaque out after you! Now, take care of yourselves, all of you.1955, Agnes Newton Keith, Bare Feet in the Palace, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, page 125
- To pet, kiss, or otherwise demonstrate overt affection, generally in public.
- "She's goin' to wait fer us down to Rothschild's bridge. 'N' her 'n' me 's goin' to set on the back seat together—" / "'N' lallygag," interrupted his mother. […] / "Oh, we allus lallygag when we git together, me 'n' Cynthy does." […]1894, Frederick Thickstun Clark, On Cloud Mountain: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, page 115
- Kissing is a game that should always be played in private. Those who must lallygag or perish should pull down the blinds.1898, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, page 257
lallygag meaning in Tamil and Kannada
lallygag in Tamil
- நோக்கின்றி சுற்றித்திரி, சும்மாயிரு, முத்தமிடு அல்லது தழுவு, உடலுறவில் ஈடுபடு
lallygag in Kannada
- ಅಲೆದಾಡು, ಅಂಡಲೆ, ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಿಂದ ಅಪ್ಪು
Synonyms of lallygag
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Forms of lallygag
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lallygags |
| alternative form | lollygag |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lallygags |
| present participle | lallygagging |
| past participle | lallygagged |
| past | lallygagged |
Questions about lallygag
- What does lallygag mean?
- Lallygag means horseplay, fooling around.
- What is lallygag in Tamil?
- Lallygag in Tamil is நோக்கின்றி சுற்றித்திரி, சும்மாயிரு, முத்தமிடு அல்லது தழுவு. See Lallygag meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is lallygag?
- Lallygag can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of lallygag?
- The plural of lallygag is lallygags.
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