English
lolly up
Lolly up comes from English shop ‘to report to the authorities’.
- English1500–presentshop‘to report to the authorities’
- Englishearliest quotation 2005lolly up
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentshop‘to report to the authorities’
- Englishearliest quotation 2005lolly up
Earliest quotation: 2005, Noel Smith, Razor Smith: “The bods who do it are grasses. They'll lolly…”
Proto-Germanic *upp ‘up’
Proto-West Germanic *upp
Old English upp
Middle English up ‘to a vertical axis’
English up
Every English word from English shop
Today it means
verb To inform on.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English shop / lolly up