loblolly

Gruel.

A thick stew; lobscouse or similar.

A mudhole.

he and Narcissa paddled and splashed with tucked-up garments and muddy bottoms, after the crudest of whittled boats, or made loblollies by treading and treading in one spot with the intense oblivion of alchemists.

A bumpkin or lout.

Whil'st he, not dreaming of thy folly, Lies gaping like a great Lob-lolly

1694, François Rabelais, (trans. Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux), The Fourth Book. This also is to be as silly as that jolt-headed loblolly of a carter, who, having laid his waggon fast in a slough, down on his marrow-bones was calling on the strong-backed deity, Hercules, might and main, to help him at a dead lift, but all the while forgot to goad on his oxen and lay his shoulder to the wheels, as it behoved him; as if a Lord have mercy upon us alone would have got his cart out of the mire.

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda).

To behave in a loutish manner.

1898, William Black, Wild Eelin, page 174, OCLC 2066856. You'd rather lob-lolly about these refreshment-rooms, and stuff yourselves until you can't stir.