LOLLYGAG

loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around

(verb) be about; “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”; “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

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

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

Synonyms: dawdle, shirk, slack, procrastinate, Thesaurus:shirk

(US, dated, 19th-20th centuries) To fool around, especially sexually.

Noun

lollygag (uncountable)

(US) Silliness, nonsense.

Source: Wiktionary



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10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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