loller

The host in Chaucer's was not the only one able to scent "a loller in the wynd" when oath-taking was condemned.

Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he taught school and worked as principal of Loller Academy in Hatboro, Pennsylvania in 1825.

Among the foreigners detained were three Americans, whose names were given by Mexican immigration officials as Michael John Sabato, Jeffrey Wright Conant and Travis Blaize Loller.

In interviews in California after they were deported on April 12 the three - Michael John Sabato, 30; Jeffrey Conant, 30, and Travis Blaize Loller, 26 - said they had not been aware that the festivities they walked into were for the Zapatista council.

Lollard, Lollardi or Loller was the popular derogatory nickname given to those without an academic background, educated if at all only in English, who were reputed to follow the teachings of John Wycliffe in particular, and were certainly considerably energized by the translation of the Bible into the English language.

The C-text of Piers contains a passage in which Will describes himself as a 'loller' or 'idler' living in the Cornhill area of London, and refers directly to his wife and child: it also suggests that he was well above average height, and made a living reciting prayers for the dead.