lollygag
Verb
Verb Forms: lollygagged, lollygagging, lollygags
- To spend time idly; to waste time dawdling or trifling.
- be about
- To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
- To fool around, especially sexually.
Noun
- Silliness, nonsense.
Examples
- He likes to do his car up with blacked-out windows, and all that lollygag.
- You can’t LOLLYGAG in Words With Friends; every second counts on the timer.
Origin / Etymology
Unknown. Cited as American slang from 1934 and attested since at least 1889.
Synonyms
footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry, blow off, dawdle, dog, doss, duck, flinch, goldbrick, goof off, lollygag, malinger, procrastinate, shirk, shrink, slack, slack off, soldier, swing the lead
Scrabble Score: 13
lollygag: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlollygag: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lollygag: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary