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loll

verb/lɒl/

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister

To sit, lie or hang in a relaxed, lazy, drooping way.

He lolled on the sofa all afternoon, one arm trailing to the floor.

Similar: lounge, sprawl, droop

Origin: Middle English, probably imitative.

Topic: lazy posture in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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