Meaning

6 senses

  1. (countable, dialectal, uncountable)Gruel.

    thick gruel

  2. (UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable)A thick stew; lobscouse or similar.

  3. (Southern, US, countable, uncountable)A mudhole.

  4. (countable, dialectal, uncountable)A bumpkin or lout.

  5. (countable, uncountable)Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda).

  6. (countable, uncountable)Loblolly bay (plant).

Origin

From Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + dialect lolly (“broth”).

From Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + dialect lolly (“broth”).

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Forms

plural: loblollies

Word family

4 related words
Derivedloblolly bayloblolly boyloblolly pineloblolly tree

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lobbyB2lobbyistlobelobotomylobster

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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