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Clement Skitt’s Word of the Day

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“His mother’s loll, the lollpoop, lolloped.”

Let’s dissect:

LOLL: Mother’s loll; a favourite child, the mother’s darling,
LOLLPOOP: A lazy, idle drone…
TO LOLLOP: To lean with one’s elbows on a table.

-all from the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

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