dallop
nounEtymology Origin unknown. Perhaps cognate with Norwegian dialect dolp, a lump.
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East Anglia, Essex, Obsolete A tuft or clump, especially an unploughed patch amongst fields of corn.
- Of barlie the longest and greenest ye find, / leaue standing by dallops, till time ye doo bind1573, Thomas Tusser, “Augusts husbandrie”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, London: English Dialect Society, published 1878, page 131:
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Alternative, Obsolete Alternative form of dollop.
- Dallop, s[ubstantive] a deal heap, a division or small heap,[…][1826, John Thomson, “Dallop”, in Etymons of English Words, Edinburgh: Published by Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, →OCLC, column 1:
- DALLOP, s[ubstantive] […] 5. A clumsy and shapeless lump of any thing tumbled about in the hands.[1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia; an Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as It Existed in the Last Twenty Years of the Eighteenth Century, and still Exists; with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by and for J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament Street, →OCLC, page 88: