lollygag
Silliness, nonsenseSilliness, nonsense.
Meaning
2 senses(US, uncountable)Silliness, nonsense.
He likes to do his car up with blacked-out windows, and all that lollygag.
Unsinn
(US, countable, dated)A useless or worthless person or thing.
The lallygag strolls down the road that leads to Failureville.
Examples
1 sentencesWe shouldn't be lollygagging.
ruМы не должны бездельничать. — xmoffx
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
By surface analysis, lolly (“fool, tongue”) + gag (“fool around”). Compare lollypoop. CiteBy surface analysis, lolly (“fool, tongue”) + gag (“fool around”). Compare lollypoop. Cited in American dialects from 1871 and attested since at least 1859.
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Forms
plural: lollygagsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary 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.