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Loblolly Boy (A.)

A surgeon’s mate in the navy. Here lob is the Welsh llob, a dolt, and loblolly boy is a dolt not yet out of his spoon-meat or baby-pap.

“Loblolly-boy is a person on board a man-of-war who attends the surgeon and his mates, but knows as much about the business of a seaman as the author of this poem.”—The Patent (1776).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Loaf
Loaf held in the Hand (A)
Loafers
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Loaves and Fishes
Lob
Lob’s Pound
Lobby
Loblolly
Loblolly Boy (A.)
Lobster Sauce
Lobsters
Lochiel
Lochinvar
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Lock the Stable Door
Lockhart
Lockit
Lockitt’s
Lockman