Meaning

11 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop.

  2. (Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable)An ice lolly; a popsicle.

  3. (Australia, New Zealand, countable, uncountable)Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of candy.

  4. (countable, uncountable)An easy catch.

  5. (Australia, Ireland, UK, slang, uncountable)Money.

    informal terms for money

  6. (Canada, uncountable)Snow or fine ice floating on water.

    ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick

  7. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A lump.

  8. (archaic, slang)The head (or, by extension, the tongue).

  9. (archaic, obsolete)A child. Alternative form of lully (“child”).

  10. (archaic, dated)A fool.

  11. (archaic, dated)Something simple to do or understand.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom loves ice lollies.

    Том обожнює фруктове морозиво. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

  2. Tom absolutely loves ice lollies.

    Том схиблений на фруктовому морозиві. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

  3. When was the last time you had a lolly?

    deWann haben Sie das letztemal ein Eis am Stiel gegessen? — Waldelfe

  4. When was the last time you had an ice lolly?

    deWann haben Sie das letztemal ein Eis am Stiel gegessen? — Waldelfe

  5. I couldn't decide whether I wanted an ice cream or an ice lolly, so I bought both.

Origin

A clipping of lollypop. From loll + -y. Shortened from loblolly (“gruel”).

A clipping of lollypop.

From loll + -y.

Shortened from loblolly (“gruel”).

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Forms

plural: lollies
Singularlolly
Plurallollies

regular

Synonyms

24 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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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