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English
Etymology
Origin unknown. Perhaps cognate with Norwegian dialect dolp, a lump.
Noun
dallop (plural dallops)
- (obsolete, East Anglia and Essex) A tuft or clump, especially an unploughed patch amongst fields of corn.
1573, Thomas Tusser, “Augusts husbandrie”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, London: English Dialect Society, published 1878, page 131:Of barlie the longest and greenest ye find, / leaue standing by dallops, till time ye doo bind
- (obsolete) Alternative form of dollop.
In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by and for
J B Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street,
→OCLC,
page 88:
DALLOP, s[ubstantive] […] 5. A clumsy and shapeless lump of any thing tumbled about in the hands.]
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