to loll around
1
4.4
- phrasal verb
- /lɔl əˈraʊnd/
- Informal
:
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- I really should take a day a week to loll around and read.
- just loll around
Examples
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The audience, mostly young, some in 70s costume, sits and lolls around on blankets.
Fiction book (1995) -
The Vancouver Eastside is full of roadside used furniture, and often I've seen transients lolling around on old mattresses.
Blog text (3) -
Will you just loll around spending your money?
Fiction book (2002) -
I told her I was going to loll around the club awhile and would phone her on Sunday.
Fiction book (1992) -
During truces, we would loll around in my house.
Fiction book (1996) -
Why don't you loll around the hotel today?
Fiction book (2001) -
Even Juanita just sort of lolled around.
Fiction book (1997) -
Some afternoons she lolled around in the air-conditioned suite on the big round bed, reading or talking long distance to Kevin back in Los Angeles.
Fiction book (1991) -
On lazy weekends, she likes to loll around the house and take naps.
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After finishing his homework, Tom decided to loll around at the park with friends.
Synonyms
946
2.4
To spend time relaxing or talking with friends
888
1.5
Spend time without any activity
407
2.0
To stay in a place without doing anything important
350
1.1
To spend time sitting and doing very little without a clear purpose
223
4.0
To relax and do very little
111
4.1
To spend time doing playful or unplanned activities
46
3.6
Act in a silly, playful way instead of working
43
3.7
To spend time doing nothing useful
26
5.4
To stand or wait in a place without a clear reason
14
9.1
To spend time relaxing with friends or alone without a plan
7
6.2
To spend time doing little or nothing instead of working
7
4.3
To spend time relaxing and doing very little
5
7.0
To sit or lie in a lazy, relaxed way
5
3.8
To relax and do very little
5
6.5
To spend time doing small, not important tasks slowly without a clear plan
4
7.3
Waste time by acting silly instead of working
4
4.0
To relax comfortably and spend time lazily in a chair or on a sofa
3
5.9
To spend time somewhere doing nothing special
3
7.9
Spend time doing very little or nothing
3
8.4
To spend time doing not important things in a relaxed way
2
7.7
To spend time doing nothing useful
2
8.6
To spend time doing very little and moving around without plans
2
9.5
To waste time instead of doing the work you need
1
8.7
To spend time doing things that are not important
1
9.2
To spend time doing small unimportant things instead of working
1
8.7
To waste time doing small unimportant things
1
3.4
To spend time lazily doing little or nothing
1
7.7
To spend time doing nothing and not working
1
3.2
To spend time doing nothing
1
6.5
To spend time doing nothing in a lazy way
1
6.5
To move around slowly doing small jobs in no hurry
1
9.9
To waste time doing silly or lazy things instead of useful work
1
9.9
To waste time instead of doing something useful
1
9.9
To waste time instead of doing something useful
To relax and do almost nothing
To waste time instead of doing something useful
To spend time on things that are not useful
To spend time doing small unimportant things with no real plan
Spend time or money on unimportant things
To waste time on small unimportant things
To travel slowly without a clear plan
To pass time by doing something not useful while you wait
How Lazy
- Informal
1
6.3
7
6.2
- Informal
1
4.4
7
4.3
12
2.7
- UK
1
6.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'loll' means to sit or lie lazily and 'around' adds an aimless/idle sense; together they transparently produce the meaning 'to laze about' or spend time doing very little. The V + around pattern commonly signals casual, purposeless activity, so a learner who knows both constituents can derive the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Loll around comes from a simple picture: loll means to hang or flop, like a dog with its tongue out, so to loll around is to flop about and do very little. That's why it now means 'to spend time in a lazy or relaxed way'.