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Interesting aside: I'm pretty sure your intention was jest, but lolling isn't as modern a word as the internet generation would have you believe (and has an ent
by noelsequeira 15y ago
Interesting aside: I'm pretty sure your intention was jest, but lolling isn't as modern a word as the internet generation would have you believe (and has an entirely different meaning).
From the etymology of loll (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=loll http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=loll):
mid-14c., lollen "to lounge idly, hang loosely," perhaps related to M.Du. lollen "to doze, mumble," or somehow imitative of rocking or swinging. Specifically of the tongue from 1610s.
- yread 15y agoyes, thank you. I understood more or less what it meant but I have never seen it before and considered it an interesting contrast