colloq. [Onomatopœic extension of LOLL v.1 Sense 2 seems to have been evolved from a sense of the phonetic expressiveness of the word.]
1. intr. To lounge or sprawl; to go with a lounging gait.
1745. Sir C. H. Williams, Place Book for Year. Next in lollop’d Sandwich with negligent grace.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand., xxxiv. (1804), 224. You are allowed, on pretence of sickness, to lollop at your ease.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, II. iv. Keeping the fire from everybody!… he lollops so, that one’s quite starved.
1796. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. 3), Lollop, to lean with one’s elbows on a table.
1825. J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, III. 314. Poor Walter felt a serious disposition to lollop and sprawl about.
1872. Miss Braddon, To Bitter End, I. xvi. 269. Anything’s better for her than lolloping over a book.
2. To bob up and down; to proceed by clumsy bounds.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 29. Its head lolloping over the end of the cart.
1878. Lady Brassey, Voy. in ‘Sunbeam,’ i. 3. For four long hours, therefore, we lolloped about in the trough of a heavy sea, the sails flapping as the vessel rolled.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, II. xii. 217. Short, uncomfortable, clumsy waves were lolloping under the steep grey cliffs.
1887. Guillemard, Cruise Marchesa (1889), 129. A young blue hare … lollopped up … to have its ears scratched.
Hence Lolloping ppl. a.
1745. Fem. Spectator, II. 233. Many Women … when they become so [sc. wives], continue the same loitering, lolloping, idle Creatures they were before.
1840. Mrs. F. Trollope, Widow Married, xxviii. With a sort of lolloping affectation that was intended to indicate great intimacy.
1887. Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit., i. 9. They [sc. 14-syllable verses] had an almost irresistible tendency to degenerate into a kind of lolloping amble.
