What's the difference between loll and lolly?

Loll


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
  • (v. i.) To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.
  • (v. i.) To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.
  • (v. t.) To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As our car crawls through central London, from WPP's Mayfair head office to Millbank, where Sorrell is to sit on a panel, the dog sits placidly in the back, lolling its head in the sun.
  • (2) The conformation of the staphylococcal nuclease-bound metal-dTdA complex, previously determined by NMR methods [Weber, D.J., Mullen, G.P., Mildvan, A.S. (1991) Biochemistry 30:7425-7437] was docked into the X-ray structure of the enzyme-Ca(2+)-3',5'-pdTp complex [Loll, P.J., Lattman, E.E.
  • (3) A total of loll patients (CP) discharged from an acute medical department (AM) had 1954 readmissions (GI).
  • (4) During a recent food distribution, a few local guards in blue uniform lolled about, but they leave when it gets dark at 6pm.
  • (5) Expect to lose a few hours lolling in the hammocks on the verandah, eating fresh mango and melon breakfasts, with friends of the Capela family dropping by for beers in the evening.
  • (6) It's sunny and beautiful outside, but you can't spend the whole weekend lolling about in the garden wondering if you should light up the barbecue, thereby angering the rain gods into immediate action.
  • (7) By day, guests loll in the lounge area or sun themselves on the beach, bartering for fresh catch with local fishermen when they return from the sea in the afternoon.
  • (8) The farmer and his children crowd around; a girl of seven or eight stirs a pot on an open fire and, in the dust, chickens fight over the entrails of a ram left over from Eid, its head still lolling in the dirt.
  • (9) A couple of minutes later the farmer comes skidding around the corner with his gun on his shoulder and a small, dead deer lolling over the back end of his quad bike.
  • (10) He lolls back in his chair, sometimes waving his arms around erratically.
  • (11) Prosecutors displayed an enlarged version of one of the images that was successfully retrieved from a witness's mobile phone – the now-infamous picture of the girl being carried by the defendants by her hands and feet, with her head apparently lolling backwards.
  • (12) She appeared unconscious, her head lolling at an awkward angle, brown stains down her left leg.
  • (13) Weakness and atrophy of neck muscles, and lolling of the neck have also been described.
  • (14) Leave time for a meal in the grounds at the idyllic Lodi restaurant, where you can loll in a private gypsy wagon overlooking a sun-dappled courtyard, sip cocktails and work your way through the delicious Mediterranean menu.
  • (15) U.S.A. 76, 2551-2555; Loll, P. J., & Lattman, E. E. (1989) Proteins: Struct., Funct., Genet.
  • (16) He's got special dispensation to drop to the bench, and loll on it, if his warm-up doesn't go well.
  • (17) The other day a guy was sawing a lamb carcass in half; it was mainly hollowed out apart from the kidneys, which were lolling about uselessly like glistening brown eggs, while the anchor monotonously droned on about traces of phenylbutazone .
  • (18) The undeserving poor drink White Lightning in the daytime, have too many children, keep dangerous dogs and spend their lives lolling about on the sofa.
  • (19) A dead pig lolls among the flotsam on South Tarawa beach.
  • (20) The high-resolution X-ray structure of wild-type staphylococcal nuclease (E43 SNase) suggests that Glu 43 acts a general basic catalyst to assist the attack of water on a phosphodiester substrate [Loll, P., & Lattman, E. E. (1989) Proteins: Struct., Funct., Genet.

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.