Antonyms for loll

Grammar : Verb

Spell : lol

Phonetic Transcription : lɒl

Definition of loll

Origin : mid-14c., lollen "to lounge idly, hang loosely," perhaps related to Middle Dutch lollen "to doze, mumble," or somehow imitative of rocking or swinging. Specifically of the tongue from 1610s. Related: Lolled; lolling. As a noun, from 1709.

verb lay sprawled

Example sentences :

We are not meant to loll at our devotions, as the lecturer told us.
Extract from : « The Nebuly Coat » by John Meade Falkner

Loll was straight before me, gesticulating and shouting to his men.
Extract from : « Burlesques » by William Makepeace Thackeray

That is why you are for ever sleeping, and why you loll and rest at all times.
Extract from : « Roger the Bold » by F. S. Brereton

They loll on their mustangs, lazily worrying out the long hours.
Extract from : « The Little Lady of Lagunitas » by Richard Henry Savage

Make them a reproach, and all that pass by them to loll out their tongues at them!
Extract from : « Library Notes » by A. P. Russell

He might take it in his hands and bear it to his lips and kiss it; he might lean and loll and kiss her.
Extract from : « Spring Days » by George Moore

It was too hot much of the time to do more than loll about the porches with a book or some sewing.
Extract from : « Clark's Field » by Robert Herrick

What do you think this is, a liner where you can loll around and look pretty?
Extract from : « The Battleship Boys at Sea » by Frank Gee Patchin

To-day we have done nothing but loll about and play croquet.
Extract from : « The Visits of Elizabeth » by Elinor Glyn

He did not loll back in his chair then and start taking it easy.
Extract from : « Certain Success » by Norval A. Hawkins

Synonyms for loll

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