different between dollop vs lollop

English

Alternative forms

• dallop (noun and verb) (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier East Anglian dialectal dallop (“patch, tuft (of grass, etc.)”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian dolp (“lump”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?l?p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?l?p/
• Rhymes: -?l?p
• Hyphenation: dol?lop

Noun

dollop (plural dollops)

1. A considerable lump, scoop, or quantity of something, especially soft food. [from 1810s]
   • 1907, Ian Hay [pseudonym; John Hay Beith], “The Philanthropists”, in “Pip”: A Romance of Youth, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, ?OCLC; republished Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge [Mass.], 1917, ?OCLC, page 23:

     On lifting it up he was surprised by an unwonted feeling of stickiness; but when he held the instrument to the light, the reason revealed itself to him immediately in the form of a dollop of congealed chicken-broth, nicely rounded to the shape of the cup, which shot from its resting-place, with a clammy thud, on to his clean shirt-front, and then proceeded to slide rapidly down inside his dress waistcoat, leaving a snail-like track, dotted with grains of rice, behind it.

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Verb

dollop (third-person singular simple present dollops, present participle dolloping, simple past and past participle dolloped)

1. (transitive) To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops. [from 1820s]
   • 1996, Buck Ramsey, “Christmas Waltz”, in Christmas Waltz (Peregrine Smith book), Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs Smith, ?ISBN; reprinted in “Remembrances of a Season: Sentiments on Waltzin’, Strollin’, Whittlin’, Roastin’, and Toastin’”, in Jesse Mullins, editor, American Cowboy, Sheridan, Wyo.: American Cowboy L.L.C., November–December 1996, ISSN 1079-3690, page 82:

     They cobbler the plums they put up back in summer, / They bake a wild turkey and roast backstrap deer, / They dollop the sourdough for rising and baking, / And pass each to each now the brown jug of cheer.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form.
   • 2008, Rachel Johnson, Shire Hell, London: Penguin Books, ?ISBN; republished as In a Good Place, Touchstone trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, June 2009, ?ISBN, page 99:

     "It's fah-bu-lous to have these early salads, from the greenhouse, but don't they make you just long for summer?" Cath says to no one in particular as she dollops away generously onto plates.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?p
• Hyphenation: lol?lop

Verb

lollop (third-person singular simple present lollops, present participle lolloping, simple past and past participle lolloped)

1. To walk or move with a bouncing or undulating motion and at an unhurried pace.
   • 1861, "Chinese Slaves Adrift", in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, Volume 5, Page 251

     Every available spyglass was directed towards strange sail. It appeared, as we all watched it, to lollop up and down, as it were, with the jerk of the sea, according to no regular motion of a ship or boat.

   • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Camel Got His Hump,” Just So Stories,^[1]

     And the Camel said ‘Humph!’ again; but no sooner had he said it than he saw his back, that he was so proud of, puffing up and puffing up into a great big lolloping humph.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 6,^[2]

     With a timid, loutish movement the great beast turned aside, then lumbered off followed by the calf. The other buffalo also extricated itself from the slime and lolloped away.

   • 1934, Henry Handel Richardson, The End of a Childhood, III,^[3]

     And first they saw the red through the trees, and then the whole coach. And no wonder it was so long coming, the horses were only just lolloping along; because it wasn't the coach that carried the mails.

   • 2013, “Chelsea, Spurs in thrilling draw,” Sport24, 8 May, 2013,^[4]

     Collecting the ball midway inside his own half, the lolloping Togolese striker exploited generosity in the home defence by ambling downfield and then shaped a sumptuous shot into the top-right corner from 25 yards.

   • 2016, Neil McKim, “80 Years of TV theme tunes,” BBC Music Magazine online, 31 October, 2016,^[5]

     After a flamboyant snare drum roll intro, the catchy plinky-plonky piano melody is joined by lolloping xylophone and flutes.

2. (obsolete) To act lazily, loll, lie around.
   • 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, Chapter 34,^[6]

     “Here’s fine discipline on-board, when such lazy, skulking sons of bitches as you are allowed, on pretence of sickness, to lollop at your ease, while your betters are kept to hard duty!”

   • 1782, Fanny Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, Volume 3, Chapter 12, p. 146,^[7]

     Mr. Meadows, who was seated in the middle of the box, was lolloping upon the table with his customary ease, and picking his teeth with his usual inattention to all about him.

   • 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie, Chapter 11,^[8]

     “Your uncle is, and always will be, a dull calculator, Nell,” observed the mother, after a long pause in a conversation that had turned on the labours of the day; “a lazy hand at figures and foreknowledge is that said Ishmael Bush! Here he sat lolloping about the rock from light till noon, doing nothing but scheme—scheme—scheme— […] ”

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