loblolly noun. ['lɒblɒli] L16.
[Origin unkn.]
1. Thick gruel, esp. as a rustic or nautical dish or a simple medicinal remedy. Formerly also, the medicines of a ship's doctor. Now dial. L16.
b. A mudhole. US colloq. M19.

2. A country bumpkin, a boor. Now dial. E17.

3. In full loblolly pine. A long-leaved pine, Pinus taeda, of the southern US. M18.

Comb.:
loblolly bay a small ornamental evergreen tree, Gordonia lasianthus, of the tea family, native to the southern US; loblolly boy an attendant who assists a ship's surgeon and his mates in their duties; dial. an errand-boy, a man of all work; loblolly pine: see sense 3 above; loblolly tree W. Indies any of several tropical American trees of the genus Cupania (family Sapindaceae), so called from the softness of their wood.

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