Definitions
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- noun
horseplay ,fooling around . - noun A
layabout , one who lallygags. - verb To
dawdle ; to belazy oridle ; to avoid necessarywork oreffort . - verb archaic, US To
pet ,kiss , or otherwise demonstrate overtaffection , generally in public.
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- verb be about
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Examples
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They don't get paid to sit around and lallygag. cm
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"And we lallygag sometimes to our last breath, don't we?" she said, adding after a pause, "When we live beyond our duality, we find it doesn't matter where we are."
Beyond Hatha Yoga At Omega Institute's 'Being Yoga' Retreat 2010
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When eggs are high, hens just wander around as though they did not care whether school kept or not, and they kick up a dust and lallygag, and get some disease, and eat all the stuff you can buy for them, and they will make such a noise the neighbors will set dogs on them, and the roosters will get on strike and send walking delegates around to keep hens from laying, and then when eggs get so cheap they are not good enough to throw at jay actors, the whole poultry yard will begin to work overtime, and you have eggs to spare.
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"400 pounds at two years of age" Fat. dehesa I suppose, rolling Iberian pasturelands where pigs lallygag and gorge on sweet Holm Oak acorns.
The Porkchop Express J. Slab 2008
bilby commented on the word lallygag
Don't think WordNet's quiet grasped this one yet.
October 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word lallygag
Wow. This opens up a whole new dimension of weirdness.
October 15, 2008