lolloping

lolloping is the present participle and gerund of lollop.

Meaning of lollop

lollop (third-person singular simple present lollops, present participle lolloping, simple past and past participle lolloped)

To walk or move with a bouncing or undulating motion and at an unhurried pace.
- Every available spyglass was directed towards this strange sail. It appeared, as we all watched it, to lollop up and down, as it were, with the jerk of the sea, according to no regular motion of a ship or boat.1861, “Chinese Slaves Adrift”, in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 5, page 251
(obsolete) To act lazily, loll, lie around.
- “Here’s fine discipline on-board, when such lazy, skulking sons of bitches as you are allowed, on pretence of sickness, to lollop at your ease, while your betters are kept to hard duty!”1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 34, in The Adventures of Roderick Random

lolloping (plural lollopings)

The motion of something that lollops.
- Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home

plural	lollopings

What does lolloping mean?: Lolloping means the motion of something that lollops.
What is lolloping the present participle and gerund of?: Lolloping is the present participle and gerund of lollop.
What part of speech is lolloping?: Lolloping is a noun.
What is the plural of lolloping?: The plural of lolloping is lollopings.

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