Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Chiefly Southern US A mudhole; a mire.
- noun The loblolly pine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loutish or foolish person.
- noun Nautical: Water-gruel or spoon-meat.
- noun Medicines collectively. Also written, erroneously, loplolly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen.
- noun (Bot.) an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia (
Gordonia Lasianthus ), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon ). - noun a surgeon's attendant on shipboard.
- noun (Bot.) a kind of pitch pine found from Delaware southward along the coast; old field pine (
Pinus Tæda ). Also,Pinus Bahamensis , of the West Indies. - noun (Bot.) a name of several West Indian trees, having more or less leathery foliage, but alike in no other respect; as
Pisonia subcordata ,Cordia alba , andCupania glabra .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dialect, nautical
Gruel . - noun US, southern A
mudhole . - noun A
bumpkin orlout . - noun
Loblolly pine , Pinus taeda. - noun
Loblolly bay (plant). - verb Behave in a loutish manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thick gruel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The pines were scrubby, -- what are known as the loblolly pines, -- and from ten to twelve inches through at the butt.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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Thus it is the loblolly, which is the almost entire second growth of nearly all the tide-water region, refuses to grow at a short distance (generally varying from five to twenty miles) and at an
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Pines such as loblolly (Pinus taeda), slash (P. elliottii), shortleaf (P. echinata), Virginia
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This root is much used among the Dutch people in a kind of loblolly or hotchpot, which they do eat, calling it _warmus_.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Page 262 applied to other pines, I prefer the vulgar name used in South Carolina, of "loblolly," which, though unmeaning, will not mislead by having more than this one application.
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This is the (pinus tæda,) "loblolly," "fox-tail," or "old-field" pine which, in lower Virginia and North Carolina, so generally covers, as second growth, the poorest worn-out fields -- and also as well grows still better (though not as exclusively,) in original forests on low and miry lands.
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"You will find the two varieties of the p. tæda recognized by Elliot, who calls the 'swamp pine' p. tæda, and the 'loblolly' var. Heterophylla" -- [which latter is recognized by all other botanists as simply p. tæda.] Dr.
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As it is a disputed question, which will be considered hereafter, whether the great Swamp or Slash Pine, a valuable tree for lumber, is of the same species, or different from this, for the present I will speak only of such trees as are undoubtedly of the kind known as "loblolly" pines.
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Once the road leaves downtown, loblolly pines, magnolia and live oaks dripping with vines crowd in on either side, their branches forming a green canopy overhead.
Vince Beiser: Lethal Sting: How the War on Drugs Killed a College Student Vince Beiser 2010
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Once the road leaves downtown, loblolly pines, magnolia and live oaks dripping with vines crowd in on either side, their branches forming a green canopy overhead.
Vince Beiser: Lethal Sting: How the War on Drugs Killed a College Student Vince Beiser 2010
pomegranate commented on the word loblolly
Loblolly is a pine species. "Thick gruel"? Puh-leeze!
January 8, 2008
reesetee commented on the word loblolly
WeirdNet strikes again.
January 8, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word loblolly
Eeyew. It makes me think of gruel with long pine needles in it!
January 8, 2008
yarb commented on the word loblolly
"Lots of folk live on their wits:
Lecturers, lispers,
Losers, loblolly-men, louts-
They don't end as paupers"
Larkin, Toads
January 8, 2008
mollusque commented on the word loblolly
C'mon, gruel's cool. Have some more!
January 8, 2008
seanahan commented on the word loblolly
There are 2,380 hits for "loblolly gruel", so I think it is valid.
January 9, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word loblolly
I've only ever seen this word meaning a kind of pine tree, except in this set of O'Brian novels, in which the word loblolly-boy appears so frequently that I didn't even think of listing it until the 12th novel, or whichever the hell one that I'm on. Anyway, usage note's on loblolly-boy.
March 7, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word loblolly
An odd mixture of spoon-meat. --an old provincial term from Exmoor England. Grose's 1787 A Provincial Glossary lists this definition and mentions its application to water-gruel and loblolly-boy.
May 6, 2011
reesetee commented on the word loblolly
Blecch.
May 6, 2011
leaden commented on the word loblolly
Nautical!
October 8, 2011
goodkitten commented on the word loblolly
C'mon wordnik. loblolly-- a stupid or foolish person
July 27, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word loblolly
The only definition from "GNU Webster's 1913" is: "n. Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen."
July 27, 2012
gleymdi commented on the word loblolly
I looked this up on encountering it in "All the King's Men" in a sense that didn't fit my understanding of loblolly as a kind of pine tree, and I found out that a loblolly pine is a species that grows in a loblolly. I found this delightfully disorienting, and "loblolly" is now my word.
August 16, 2024