lallygag

Other forms of lallygag

past tense or participle

lallygagged

present participle

lallygagging

third person

lallygags·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lallygag

What does lallygag mean?

lallygag means "be about".

How many syllables are in lallygag?

lallygag has 3 syllables: lal-ly-gag. The stress falls on "lal".

What is another word for lallygag?

Close synonyms include loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lallygag a common word?

lallygag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.