"loblolly boy" Definition

Definitions for the word "loblolly boy" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. slang
a derisive term for a surgeon’s mate in the navy. “LOB-LOLLY-BOY is a person who on board of a man-of-war attends the surgeon and his mates, and one who knows just as much of the business of a seaman as the author of this poem.”—_The Patent, a Poem_, 4to, 1776.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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