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Word #23
Last week's Wednesday word was cancelled due to RL. My sincere apologies!
lulu
[loo-loo]
noun, slang
1. any remarkable or outstanding person or thing: His black eye is a lulu.
2. a very attractive or seductive looking woman
3. a fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.
Etymology:
1. and 2. First attested in a baseball article from New Orleans, U.S., perhaps from earlier looly "beautiful girl," of unknown origin.
3. Special use of lulu, with play on lieu, from a facetious remark attributed to New York governor Al Smith.
I encountered this lulu of a word whilst translating the latest, posthumously published novel by Mickey Spillane, Dead Street. There he talks about "a lulu of a building". ;-).
lulu
[loo-loo]
noun, slang
1. any remarkable or outstanding person or thing: His black eye is a lulu.
2. a very attractive or seductive looking woman
3. a fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.
Etymology:
1. and 2. First attested in a baseball article from New Orleans, U.S., perhaps from earlier looly "beautiful girl," of unknown origin.
3. Special use of lulu, with play on lieu, from a facetious remark attributed to New York governor Al Smith.
I encountered this lulu of a word whilst translating the latest, posthumously published novel by Mickey Spillane, Dead Street. There he talks about "a lulu of a building". ;-).