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loll

  [lol]
Use lolling in a Sentence
–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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