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)
- 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...
- 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...
- To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth.
- The ox stood lolling in the furrow.
Meaning of lol
Particle
lol
- Neutralises the tone of a message; denotes that a message is light-hearted or casual.
- Are you really that bad lol?
Noun
lolling (plural lollings)
- 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
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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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