What is "lollygag"

Usage examples of "lollygag".

Erskine said that our laziness, our arrogance, our tendency to lollygag and daydream, and our sloppy sentimentality had all but ruined us for the serious business of life.

Seward liked to lollygag, to talk back and forth, to give here and take there, quite unconscious of the fact that this verbal bargain hunting invariably convinced people that he was insincere.

It was no time for such lollygagging, he knew, but he had the strangest feeling that she was looking over his shoulder .

There were few things Roberta enjoyed more than lollygagging with her girls, and Isobel Farley had been a cheerful addition - a little shy, but an eager disciple.

That good-for-nothing, lollygagging, Colonel Meagher has been appointed brigadier general and will take command at once.

Try to commit murder, burn down maybe half a town, and now here he was lollygagging in his hotel room like there was nary a thing to be concerned with in the whole damn world.

Master Baerauble will have me flayed if he thinks I was lollygagging around all afternoon.

The implications were obvious: what were Murphy police doing lollygagging over lunch when there were murders to solve?

There were few things Roberta enjoyed more than lollygagging with her girls, and Isobel Farley had been a cheerful addition - a little shy, but an eager disciple.

He just went on drawling and lollygagging along as if he were sitting in the catbird seat the whole time!

Harvest time was not the right season for an ag extension agent to be lollygagging around as an invalid.

Mal went to Stanford, graduated and lollygagged through a year of law school, dreaming of back-alley adventure, prowling for loose women and never really enjoying the capture.

Elmer ain't related to nobody what we can figure, but he lollygags out back a-­tryin' to court the prettier heifers.