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Meanings of loll in English

Portuguese
pender
Spanish
colgar

Hang loosely or laxly.

pender

Be lazy or idle.

Synonyms
Examples for "droop"
Examples for "droop"
1
The leaves droop on the trees and the heat almost smothers one.
Little Journey to Puerto Rico / For Intermediate and Upper Grade...
2
The ferns of the cedar woods almost droop against the sandy slope.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
3
Through the gathering darkness Prince watched the figure of his companion droop.
A Man Four-Square
4
The winds are laid, and the restless leaves droop and are quiet.
To Have and to Hold
5
His eyelids started to droop, and this time he felt a pinch.
The soul catcher
Usage of loll in English
1
Few remained indoors, and few possessed the calmness to loll in deck-chairs.
West Wind Drift
2
Tawdrily dressed girls saunter along the sidewalks, or loll from the window-sills.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
3
All afternoon I take it easy and loll around on the sofa.
The Elephant Vanishes
4
What should he loll in the bed for, and dirty the bedclothes?
Selected Polish Tales
5
The latter seemed to loll on, totally heedless of such a tributary.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume...
6
The dog opened his mouth, allowing his long tongue to loll out.
The Blue Envelope
7
Soon her month fell open, and her head began to loll back.
Hell House
8
They don't loll, but they only escape lolling by dint of gracefulness.
Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
9
Peter twisted his mouth out of shape and let his tongue loll.
Hook
10
Women with soulless faces loll stolidly in the open ground-floor windows.
Saint Patrick / 1887
11
If they loll back and watch the kitchen door, I win.
K
12
They loll on their mustangs, lazily worrying out the long hours.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
13
To-day we have done nothing but loll about and play croquet.
The Visits of Elizabeth
14
Marmoset and Violet loll their heads in my direction when I come in.
Wild Thing
15
They sing, they loll, they talk of Paris, and above all they drink.
The Secret of the Night
16
Then, for effect, he gagged on his saliva, letting his tongue loll out.
The hunchback assignments
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Translations for loll
Portuguese
pender
Spanish
colgar
Loll through the time
Loll across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common