loll
loll — verb
- lollpresent simple I / you / we / they
- lollshe / she / it
- lolledpast simple
- lolling-ing form
1. To sit, lie, or lean without holding your body upright or tense, or to hang loos
To sit, lie, or lean without holding your body upright or tense, or to hang loosely without control — used especially of a person's head or tongue.
Evelyn lolled on the sofa after the mountain hike, boots still on, holding iced tea.
loll + on [furniture] after activity
Jin lolled against the kitchen counter, too tired to finish washing the dishes.
Indra and Lakshmi lolled on a picnic blanket, fanning themselves under the oak tree.
Nkechi's old dog sat in the shade with its tongue lolling out of its mouth.
Eli fell asleep on the bus and his head lolled forward onto his chest.
- sit up straight
describes an alert, upright posture
- brace
to hold the body stiffly against movement
文法句型
loll + preposition (about/around/against/back/on)
tongue/head + loll + adverb (out/forward/back)
用法筆記
This sense covers two distinct visual images: a person relaxing with a loose, careless posture, and a body part that droops. For the first image, loll is commonly paired with about, around, or against. For the second, the subject is usually tongue or head and the verb is followed by an adverb of direction such as out, forward, or back.
常見錯誤
loll — noun
1. The way someone sits or lies when they are resting their body in a comfortable,
The way someone sits or lies when they are resting their body in a comfortable, lazy position without holding themselves upright.
Sofia's lazy loll in the hammock, a book on her stomach, made her look relaxed.
lazy loll + in [furniture]
Alessia caught sight of her brother's comfortable loll against the car door as they waited for the ferry, and smiled.
The cat's peaceful loll on the warm windowsill ended when a sparrow landed on the bird feeder outside the window.
A young photographer noticed the old man's relaxed loll on the park bench and took a photo with her camera.
文法句型
possessive + loll + preposition
用法筆記
This noun is very uncommon. It is most often found in descriptive writing and usually needs a possessive or determiner (his loll, the cat's loll) plus a prepositional phrase showing where the lolling happens.