What's the difference between golly and lolly?

Golly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Golly; so riled is Abrams that he has committed a Hollywood solecism – you never tell anyone not to come.
  • (2) Helena Bonham Carter, one of the stars of the film, was seen to mouth “Oh golly” as the protesters jumped the barrier as she was walking the red carpet.
  • (3) The vote on Europe might not have been binding, but by golly it was important.
  • (4) As a general spirit, I'd accept the term "rock and roll" – but if we're talking about Good Golly Miss Molly then it couldn't possibly be further from us.
  • (5) It looks like the Starship Enterprise and costs an eye-watering £299, but by golly, it juices them brassicas good.
  • (6) When these books were published, 'jeepers' and 'golly gosh' was modern slang.
  • (7) You know, it wasn't, 'Golly, gee, them Commies are bad.'
  • (8) I remember after that thinking, 'Golly, how can I keep raising the game?'"
  • (9) "By golly, I just hate these unamerican [sic] shoes!"
  • (10) The first is this, the sort of companies that I understand don't sit there saying, 'by golly, we've got to be able to get rid of people, so therefore we mustn't invest because the risks are too high.'
  • (11) The New Vic continued the tradition of staging new work, including Chris Martin's 1988 adaptation of Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha and Bob Eaton's musical Good Golly Miss Molly (1989), as well as classic repertory.
  • (12) Ordinarily I'd be elated – I'd been determined to find Hugh the perfect present, and, by golly, I had done it – but instead I felt unhinged, not by the things I had seen so much as by the taxidermist.

Lolly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indeed, it's possible to imagine circumstances in which more disclosure serves to inflate pay – for instance, Goldman Sachs's bankers might use revelations within Barclays' annual report to demand even more lolly for themselves.
  • (2) Touches such as dog biscuits and children's lollies are also intended to make clear to customers that service rather than price is the main proposition.
  • (3) On a good day, all Layla required was her normal preemie accoutrement: a central line IV that started in between her fingers and ended near her heart, and required her arm to be immobilised by what looked like a splint made of lolly sticks and gauze; a nasal cannula that delivered a steady flow of oxygen, the pressure of which would change depending on how many times she stopped breathing that day; a blood oxygen monitor attached to her foot; four or five wires that measured her heart rate; and the feeding tube inserted through her throat or nose.
  • (4) While he is talking, someone sneezes, and he gives them a lolly.
  • (5) Hampstead Heath, as he doesn't mind telling you, was a kind of sylvan sweetshop so far as he was concerned, a Swizzles lolly behind every tree.
  • (6) I’ll be here from 6.30pm to keep an eye on every fearful Foxtrot and chilling Charleston, so grab the bowl of Trick or Treat leftovers (mostly Cadbury's Fudge bars and Drumstick lollies, in my case) and join me in the comment box.
  • (7) It also makes a range of Nestlé products, including Fab lollies, and ranges for Ribena, Thorntons and others.
  • (8) In only one instance – Adam Lawrence and Lolly Adefope’s escapology act – is effort made to astonish with skill, rather than amuse with the lack of it.
  • (9) Shemmings has brought with him some chocolate lollies to demonstrate a particular concept.
  • (10) Signorini had tried to suggest his critics in “gelatogate” were leftwing foes that had enjoyed a suggestive video featuring Pascale licking an ice lolly .
  • (11) For souvenirs that go beyond the usual tat, meanwhile, call +30 210 92 45 064 to book a visit to appointment-only design shop Greece is for Lovers , which sells such tongue-in-cheek mementos as marble ice lollies and Zeus-style lightning bolt paper knives.
  • (12) Plastic rubbish including sweet and lolly wrappers also rose by 3% in 2012 compared with 2011, the annual count of litter on UK beaches in the Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) beachwatch big weekend showed .
  • (13) There are things you need to fight, and anorexics isn’t one of them.” One of her favourite jokes comes from a lolly stick she read when she was 14.
  • (14) Sixty-eight per cent of the intakes among the lower social class 12-year-old children was in the form of cheap sugar-containing drinks, ice lollies and sweets which they bought themselves and consumed away from home.
  • (15) King Phil and his wife, Queen Tina – she’s a businesswoman who conveniently owns a lot of the family’s wealth – come in at No 29 this year, their £3.2bn total was £280m down on the previous year after the sale of exhausted BHS for the price of an ice lolly.
  • (16) After pieces of plastic, the most commonly found items were crisp, lolly and sweet wrappers, little bits of string and cord, caps and lids, polystyrene pieces and drinks bottles.
  • (17) Last year the miserable early summer weather and rising prices meant the volume sold in cones, tubs and stick lollies was down 11% compared with 2007, at 333m litres.
  • (18) Retailers sold £8.2m worth more lollies in the week to 13 July compared with the same week last year, a 293% improvement.
  • (19) That has helped boost the total value of the market in desserts from the freezer, as lollies are typically 16% more expensive per kilogram than ice-creams.
  • (20) Although the weather has now cooled a little, Tesco neverthless expects to sell 150% more lollies in the last two weeks of July compared with the same period last year.

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