Don't let's

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:12:23AM -0500, Mark Mandel wrote:
>
> "Trolly-mogging" sounds like "lollygagging", here in the sense "dawdle,
> dally", but OED has only "trolly-mog" as a noun, under trolly, n.2, with
> only UK cites:
>
> > dial.    = TROLLOP n. 1. Also comb. in trolly-mog, trollimog [cf. MOGGY 2]
> > in the same sense.
>
> Will, you may have uncovered a new sense for the OED. Are you listening,
> Jesse?

Always.

JTS

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