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lolly

UK/ˈlɒl.i/US/ˈlɒl.i/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,697 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: lollies

A lolly is a sweet on a stick, or ice on a stick. An ice lolly, a lolly stick, suck a lolly.

Britain says ice lolly where America says popsicle, which is a brand name there. Lolly is also old slang for money, and lolly sticks are the standard material of every school modelling project.

Definitions of lolly

  1. 1nounlollyA sweet on a stick, or ice on a stick.B2+

    “The kids each got an ice lolly from the van on the beach.”

lolly is a sweet.

Where it comes from

A shortening of lollipop, itself perhaps from a dialect word for the tongue.

A a clipping of lollypop.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

lolly in the wild

  • Fab is a strawberry, vanilla and chocolate flavoured ice lolly made by Froneri.

    Fab (brand)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.