lulliloo

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verb

To utter a high-pitched oscillating joyous cry such as is traditionally used in Africa and the Middle East.

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Meanings

verblulliloo (third-person singular simple present lulliloos or lulliloo's, present participle lullilooing or lulliloo'ing, simple past and past participle lullilooed or lulliloo'd or lulliloo'ed)

present singular third person lulliloos · present singular third person lulliloo's · participle present lullilooing · participle present lulliloo'ing · participle past lullilooed · past lullilooed · participle past lulliloo'd · past lulliloo'd · participle past lulliloo'ed · past lulliloo'ed

  1. To utter a high-pitched oscillating joyous cry such as is traditionally used in Africa and the Middle East.

    The singing-girls beat their tabrets and lulliloo'd with joy[.]

    1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 216
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    Our entrance was attended with the usual ceremony, now familiar to the reader: the warmen danced, shot, and shouted, a rabble of adults, youths and boys crowded upon us, the fair sex lulliloo'd with vigor[.]

    1881, Bayard Taylor, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 147

Origin

Onomatopoeic.

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lulliloo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lulliloo

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“lulliloo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lulliloo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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