verb, (colloquial).—To lounge about; TO LOAF. Hence, LOLLOP, subs. = a lazybones or LOAFER; and LOLLOPY, adj. = lazy.
1745. C. H. WILLIAMS, Place-book, quoted in Notes and Queries, 7 S. iv. 425. Next in LOLLOP’D Sandwich, with negligent grace.
1748. SMOLLETT, Roderick Random, xxxiv. ‘You are allowed, on pretence of sickness, to LOLLOP at your ease, while your betters are kept to hard duty!’
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
1865. MASSON, Inaugural Address, 13 Nov. What matters it to our judgment of a beautiful poem, it is asked, what was the appearance and personal character of the author—whether he was laborious and independent in his habits, or LOLLOPED on the surface of society, accepting all he could get and paying nobody? With all deference to those who think otherwise I say that it matters a great deal.
1878. LADY BRASSEY, A Voyage in the ‘Sunbeam,’ I. i. For four long hours … we LOLLOPPED about in the trough of a heavy sea.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 26 Jan., p. 5, col. 3. She LOLLOPS about in a loose dressing-gown, and he is seduced into the carelessness of carpet slippers.
