loll
/lɒl/US/lɑl/
loll verb: to act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.

Verb
loll (third-person singular simple present lolls, present participle lolling, simple past and past participle lolled)
- To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
- And think'ſt thou, Jove himſelf, with Patience then / Can hear a Pray'r condemn'd by wicked Men? / That, void of Care, he lolls ſupine in State, / And leaves his Bus'neſs to be done by Fate?1726, Aulus Persius Flaccus; John Dryden, transl., “The Second Satyr”, in The Satyrs of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Made English by Mr. Dryden, published in The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: And of...
- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but [Ice Age:] 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...2012 July 12, Sam Adams, “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2014
- To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
- Nor thy reſiſtleſs Arm the Bull withſtood: / Nor He the roaring Terror of the Wood. / The triple Porter of the Stygian seat, / With lolling Tongue, lay fawning at thy Feet: / And, ſeiz'd with Fear, forgot his mangled Meat.1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, pages 445–446...
- Crouching on its stomach, the dog moved with him, teeth glittering, tongue lolling.1975, Susan Cooper, “Cadfan’s Way”, in The Grey King (The Dark Is Rising Sequence; 4), London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing...
- To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth.
- The ox stood lolling in the furrow.
- The combatants with rage most horrible
Strove, and their eyes started with cracking stare,
And impotent their tongues they lolled into the air,
Flaccid and foamy, like a mad dog’s hanging; […]1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC...
loll meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
loll in Tamil
- சோம்பேறி
loll in Urdu
- جھولنا, لٹکنا, لوٹنا, پڑا رہنا, لٹکانا
loll in Bengali
- অলসভাবে শুয়ে থাকা, হেলান দেওয়া, জিহ্বা বের করে রাখা
loll in Malayalam
- stretch oneself, lounge, sprawl
- ഉദാസീനമയി ചാരിക്കിടക്കുക, അലസമായി നീണ്ടുനിവർന്നു കിടക്കുക, വെറുതെ മൂടിപ്പുതച്ചുകിടക്കുക, കെെയുംകാലും നിട്ടിവച്ചുകിടക്കുക, ചുരുണ്ടുകൂടിക്കിടക്കുക, ക്ഷീണിച്ചു തളർന്നുകിടക്കുക
- droop, hang (loosely), dangle
- അയഞ്ഞുതൂങ്ങി നിയന്ത്രണമില്ലാതെ കിടക്കുക, താഴേക്കു തൂങ്ങിക്കിക്കുക, തലതാഴ്ന്നുകിടക്കുക, തലതൂങ്ങിക്കിടക്കുക, തലതൂങ്ങുക, തലകുനിയുക
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- loll in Kannada
- ಅಲಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಎರಗಿರು
- loll in Sanskrit
- लल् lal, ललति lalati
- loll in Arabic
- تَكَاسَلَ takāsala, تَرَاخَى tarāḵā, تَدَلَّى tadallā
Examples of loll in a sentence
- Liv's head lolled to the side and rested on his shoulder.2015, Mary Davis, chapter 8, in Winning Olivia’s Heart (Heartsong Presents; HP1145), New York, N.Y.: Love Inspired Books, →ISBN, page 104:
- [W]hen he saw the hundreds of heads of cattle lolling their greedy way through his grass, he ran towards them wildly, waving his arms, screaming.2011 September, Anna Solomon, chapter 30, in The Little Bride: A Novel, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN...
Synonyms of loll
Forms of loll
| third-person singular present | lolls |
|---|---|
| present participle | lolling |
| past participle | lolled |
| past | lolled |
Origin of loll
From Middle English lollen, lullen (“to lounge idly, hang loosely”), of uncertain origin; the Middle English Dictionary suggests a derivation from Middle Dutch lollen, lullen (“to doze; to mumble, talk nonsense”), though the words could merely be cognate. Compare modern Dutch lol (“fun”)), Icelandic lolla (“to act lazily”). See also lull.
Words formed from loll
Words that rhyme with loll
7 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about loll
- What does loll mean?
- Loll means to act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
- What is loll in Tamil?
- Loll in Tamil is சோம்பேறி. See Loll meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use loll in a sentence?
- Liv's head lolled to the side and rested on his shoulder.
- What part of speech is loll?
- Loll is a verb.
- How do you pronounce loll?
- Loll is pronounced /lɒl/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of loll?
- The past tense of loll is lolled.
Words near loll in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: loll (page history and authors); loll (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); loll (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Loll (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); loll (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); loll (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ललति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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