loblolly

1. (dialect, nautical) Gruel.countabledialectaluncountable

2. (UK, dialect) A thick stew; lobscouse or similar.UKcountabledialectaluncountable

3. (US, southern) A mudhole.Examples: "he and Narcissa paddled and splashed with tucked-up garments and muddy bottoms, after the crudest of whittled boats, or made loblollies by treading and treading in one spot with the intense oblivion of alchemists."SouthernUScountableuncountable

4. (now mostly dialect) A bumpkin or lout.Examples: "Whil'st he, not dreaming of thy folly, Lies gaping like a great Lob-lolly"; "1694, François Rabelais, (trans. Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux), The Fourth Book. This also is to be as silly as that jolt-headed loblolly of a carter, who, having laid his waggon fast in a slough, down on his marrow-bones was calling on the strong-backed deity, Hercules, might and main, to help him at a dead lift, but all the while forgot to goad on his oxen and lay his shoulder to the wheels, as it behoved him; as if a Lord have mercy upon us alone would have got his cart out of the mire."; "1777, Charles Shadwell, "The fair quaker of deal", in Bell's British Theatre, pages 21 to 22, OCLC 2986037. If he would force the surgeon to cure us at the government's charge, it would be a mighty encouragement to us; but our rogue of a loblolly doctor, being not satisfied with his two-pences, must have a note for two months pay for every cure …"countabledialectaluncountable