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verb
- 1. spend time aimlessly; idle: informal North American "she goes to Arizona every January to lollygag in the sun"
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Lollygag is an informal verb that means to fool around and waste time or dawdle. Learn its origin, synonyms, examples, and related words from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
To lollygag is to be slow or idle or lazy. You might say to your dawdling friends, "Don't lollygag! We'll miss our bus!" You lollygag when you take you own sweet time walking to your piano teacher's house, and you also lollygag when you lounge lazily in a hammock under a tree.
To lollygag is to dilly-dally, dawdle, loaf around, or goof off. If you’re lollygagging, you’re wasting time by moving slowly or doing something less important than what you should be (or doing nothing at all). Lollygag is primarily used in the United States. It is synonymous with the very similar spelled lallygag, but lollygag is more ...
Jun 2, 2024 · lollygag (third-person singular simple present lollygags, present participle lollygagging, simple past and past participle lollygagged) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort. Synonyms: dawdle, shirk, slack, procrastinate; see also Thesaurus: shirk
Jun 14, 2024 · Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. lollygag in American English. (ˈlɑliˌgæg ) US. verb intransitive Word forms: ˈlollyˌgagged or ˈlollyˌgagging. Informal. to waste time in trifling or aimless activity; fool around. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Synonyms for LOLLYGAG: delay, linger, drag, dawdle, loiter, poke, creep, mope; Antonyms of LOLLYGAG: hurry, rush, race, course, run, scurry, fly, scoot.
Lollygag is an informal verb that means to waste time by puttering aimlessly or dawdling. It is also spelled as lallygag or lal·ly·gag. See the origin, pronunciation, and translations of lollygag.
