It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 28th.
Today's word is loligag, spelled L-O-L-L-Y-G-A-G.
loligag is a verb.
To loligag is to spend time doing things that are not useful or serious,
or in other words, to fool around and waste time.
Here's the word used in a sentence from sfgate.com by Julie Tremaine.
Pete dates all the way back to 1925 in the Disney Alice comedies.
He's older than Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who first appeared in Disney's 1927 Trolley Troubles.
And he's older than Mickey Mouse himself,
who made his debut in 1928's Steamboat Willie, along with none other than Pete.
Back then, however, he was Captain Pete, and a decidedly bad boss to an admittedly shoddy employee,
more interested in whistling and lollygagging than swabbing the decks.
Lollygag, sometimes spelled with an A as lollygag,
has been used informally to talk about acts of wasting time since at least the mid-1800s.
Some might relate to this 1856 quote from the North Californian,
Oh ye denizens of cooler climbs, how we do envy you in these days.
Oh, for a lodge on some vast iceberg or a chance to lullagag amid piles of snow.
In its earlier days, lullagag could also apply to displays of affection.
Back in 1946,
one navy captain considered lullagagging enough of a problem to issue this stern warning.