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lolling

lolling is the present participle and gerund of loll.

lolling is the present participle and gerund of lol.

Meaning of loll

Verb

loll (third-person singular simple present lolls, present participle lolling, simple past and past participle lolled)

  1. (intransitive) 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...
    Synonyms:
    relax, slack, slacken
  2. (intransitive) 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...
  3. (ambitransitive) To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth.
    • The ox stood lolling in the furrow.

Meaning of lol

Particle

lol

  1. (Internet) Neutralises the tone of a message; denotes that a message is light-hearted or casual.
    • Are you really that bad lol?

See all 13 meanings of lol

Noun

lolling (plural lollings)

  1. The act of one who lolls.
    • That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.1849, The Knickerbocker, volume 33, page 198

Forms of lolling

plurallollings

Phrases with lolling

Questions about lolling

What does lolling mean?
Lolling means the act of one who lolls.
What is lolling the present participle and gerund of?
Lolling is the present participle and gerund of loll.
What part of speech is lolling?
Lolling is a noun.
What is the plural of lolling?
The plural of lolling is lollings.

Words near lolling in the dictionary

  1. lolli-pops
  2. Lollie
  3. lollier
  4. lollies
  5. lolliest
  6. lolling
  7. lolling about
  8. lolling around
  9. lollingite
  10. lollingites
  11. lollingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lolling (page history and authors); loll (page history and authors); lol (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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