different between nonsense vs lollygag

English

Alternative forms

• nonsence (archaic)
• non-sense

Etymology

From non- (“no, none, lack of”) +? sense, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar West Frisian ûnsin (“nonsense”), Dutch onzin (“nonsense”), German Unsinn (“nonsense”), English unsense (“nonsense”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?ns?ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?ns?ns/
• Hyphenation: non?sense
• Rhymes: -?ns?ns, -?ns?ns

Noun

nonsense (usually uncountable, plural nonsenses)

1. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.

2. An untrue statement.

3. That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
4. Something foolish.
5. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear.
6. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:nonsense
• Synonyms: falsehood, lie, untruth, absurdity, rubbish, tosh
• Synonyms: absurdity, silliness, contradiction, stupidity, unreasoning

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Verb

nonsense (third-person singular simple present nonsenses, present participle nonsensing, simple past and past participle nonsensed)

1. To make nonsense of;
2. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.

   Synonyms: belittle, dismiss, pooh-pooh, rubbish
3. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time

Adjective

nonsense (comparative more nonsense, superlative most nonsense)

1. Nonsensical.
2. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).

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Interjection

nonsense

1. An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.

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See also

• missense
• non-sense

Finnish

Noun

nonsense

1. nonsense (type of poetry)

Declension

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?ns?ns/

Etymology

From English nonsense.

Noun

nonsense

1. nonsense

Alternative forms

• nonsens

English

Alternative forms

• lallygag

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?l??æ?/

Verb

lollygag (third-person singular simple present lollygags, present participle lollygagging, simple past and past participle lollygagged)

1. (US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.

   Synonyms: dawdle, shirk, slack, procrastinate; see also Thesaurus:shirk

2. (US, dated, 19th-20th centuries) To fool around, especially sexually.
   • 1946, Captain C. F. Behrens, MC, USN, quoted in Time Magazine, volume 47, part 1, page 74, 1946:

     Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden. […] The holding of hands, osculation and constant embracing of WAVES, corpsmen or civilians and sailors or any combination of male and female personnel is a violation of naval discipline. […]

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Noun

lollygag (uncountable)

1. (US) Silliness, nonsense.

   He likes to do his car up with blacked-out windows, and all that lollygag.

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