loblolly

Etymology
From Yorkshire dialect + dialect.

Noun

 * 1)  Gruel.
 * 2)  A thick stew; lobscouse or similar.
 * 3)  A mudhole.
 * 4)  A bumpkin or lout.
 * 5) * 1675, Lucian (trans. Charles Cotton), Burlesque upon Burlesque: or, The scoffer scoft, |page 86
 * Whil'st he, not dreaming of thy folly,
 * Lies gaping like a great Lob-lolly
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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 [...]
 * 1) * 1914, Macmillan's Annual, page 46, OCLC 609887069
 * A yellow-eyed collie
 * Was guarding his coat-
 * Loose-limbed and lob-lolly,
 * But wise and remote.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) Loblolly pine,.
 * 2) Loblolly bay plant.
 * 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.
 * 1) Loblolly pine,.
 * 2) Loblolly bay plant.
 * 1) Loblolly bay plant.

Verb

 * 1) To behave in a loutish manner.
 * 2) * 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.