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loll

  [lol]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner; lounge: to loll on a sofa.
2. to hang loosely; droop; dangle: The dog stood in the heat with his tongue lolling out of his mouth.
–verb (used with object)
3. to allow to hang, droop, or dangle.
–noun Archaic.
4. the act of lolling.
5. a person or thing that lolls.
Origin:
1300–50; ME lollen, lullen (perh. imit.); cf. MD lollen doze, sit over the fire

Related forms:
loller, noun
loll⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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loll   (lŏl)   
v.   lolled, loll·ing, lolls

v.   intr.
  1. To move, stand, or recline in an indolent or relaxed manner.
  2. To hang or droop laxly: a pennant lolling from the mast.
v.   tr.
To permit to hang or droop laxly: lolled his head on the armrest.
n.   Archaic
An act or attitude of lolling.

[Middle English lollen, probably from Middle Dutch, to doze.]
loll'er n., loll'ing·ly adv.
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Loll

Loll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Lolling.] [Cf. Icel. lolla to act lazily, loll, lolla, laziness, OD. lollen to sit over the fire, and E. lull. Cf. Lill, Lull.]

1. To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.

Void of care, he lolls supine in state. --Dryden.

2. To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.

The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet. --Dryden.

3. To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.

Loll

Loll\, v. t. To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.

Fierce tigers couched around and lolled their fawning tongues. --Dryden.
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Language Translation for : loll
Spanish: repantingarse,
German: herumlungern,
Japanese: のらくらする
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loll 
1362, 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 1611.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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