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lollygag

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈlɒlɪɡæɡ/Part of speech verbSorted aggllloyStarts with LEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. be about a place without any apparent purpose

Word origin

By surface analysis, lolly (“fool, tongue”) + gag (“fool around”). Compare lollypoop. Cited in American dialects from 1871 and attested since at least 1859.

Used in a sentence

  • Stop lollygagging! […] He ate ALL the ship's food! 'Zat your friend? Show him outta here!
  • Now this plaintiff thinks how poor he hereafter will have to live, for the sake of old Green's having a fine fat woman to lollygag with.
  • At the fair the other day George and Sue were lollygagging around like two sick kittens.

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