Etymology

lanterloo

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Today it means: A meaningless chant or refrain. Full definition →

French lanturlu
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  1. French · borrowed fromlanturlu
  2. English todaylanterloo

From French lanturlu, originally the refrain of a 16th-century song.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.