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loblolly

noun · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • CMU ARPABET: L AA1 B L AA2 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Gruel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, dialectal, uncountable

Topics: nautical, transport

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A thick stew; lobscouse or similar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A mudhole.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Southern, US, countable, uncountable

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A bumpkin or lout.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, dialectal, uncountable

Examples

  • 1694, François Rabelais, (trans. Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux), The Fourth Book. This also is to be as silly as that jolt-headed loblolly of a carter, who, having laid his waggon fast in a slough, down on his marrow-bones was calling on the strong-backed deity, Hercules, might and main, to help him at a dead lift, but all the while forgot to goad on his oxen and lay his shoulder to the wheels, as it behoved him; as if a Lord have mercy upon us alone would have got his cart out of the mire.
  • 1777, Charles Shadwell, "The fair quaker of deal", in Bell's British Theatre, pages 21 to 22, OCLC 2986037. If he would force the surgeon to cure us at the government's charge, it would be a mighty encouragement to us; but our rogue of a loblolly doctor, being not satisfied with his two-pences, must have a note for two months pay for every cure ...
  • 1946, George Bagshawe Harrison, A Jocobean Journal, page 176, OCLC 14246203. This lob-lolly would for ever be making love to ladies, to the no small gain of the pages, whou would feign to bring him commendations and tokens from the ladies in return for angels.

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5

noun

Meaning 5

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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6

noun

Meaning 6

Loblolly bay (plant).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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7

verb

Meaning 7

To behave in a loutish manner.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1898, William Black, Wild Eelin, page 174, OCLC 2066856. You'd rather lob-lolly about these refreshment-rooms, and stuff yourselves until you can't stir.

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8

noun

Meaning 8

thick gruel

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: gruel

History

Etymology

From Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + dialect lolly (“broth”).

Real reading context

loblolly in complete knowledge articles

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