different between loll vs goll

English

Etymology

From Middle English lollen, lullen (“to lounge idly, hang loosely”), of uncertain origin; the Middle English Dictionary suggests a derivation from Middle Dutch lollen, lullen (“to doze; to mumble, talk nonsense”), though the words could merely be cognate. Compare modern Dutch lol (“fun”)), Icelandic lolla (“to act lazily”). See also lull.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Verb

loll (third-person singular simple present lolls, present participle lolling, simple past and past participle lolled)

1. (intransitive) To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease. [from mid-14th c.]
   • 1726, Aulus Persius Flaccus; John Dryden, transl., “The Second Satyr”, in The Satyrs of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Made English by Mr. Dryden, published in The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: And of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden, and Several Other Eminent Hands. To which is Prefix’d a Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satyr, 5th edition, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, ?OCLC, page 251:

     And think'?t thou, Jove him?elf, with Patience then / Can hear a Pray'r condemn'd by wicked Men? / That, void of Care, he lolls ?upine in State, / And leaves his Bus'ne?s to be done by Fate?
2. (intransitive) To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion. [from 1610s]
3. (transitive, intransitive) To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth in this way.

Synonyms

• (to act lazily or indolently): relax, slack, slacken

Translations

References

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lolli. Cognate to Votic lollo (“fool, idiot”) and dialectal Finnish lolli (“fool; stupid, fat, lazy”).

Adjective

loll (genitive lolli, partitive lolli)

1. stupid

Noun

loll (genitive lolli, partitive lolli)

1. a stupid person; a fool

Declension

Antonyms

• tark

See also

• nõme
• rumal

English

Etymology 1

Noun

goll (plural golls)

1. (obsolete) A hand.

Etymology 2

From God.

Proper noun

goll

1. (dialect, euphemistic) God

Manx

Etymology

See Irish goil.

Noun

goll m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. verbal noun of immee
2. going

Synonyms

• immeeaght

Derived terms

• goll as gaccan (“going and grumbling”)

Mutation