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lullilooing

lullilooing is the present participle and gerund of lulliloo.

Meaning of lulliloo

Verb

lulliloo (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)

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

Questions about lullilooing

What is lullilooing the present participle and gerund of?
Lullilooing is the present participle and gerund of lulliloo.

Words near lullilooing in the dictionary

  1. lulliloo
  2. lulliloo'd
  3. lulliloo'ing
  4. lulliloo's
  5. lullilooed
  6. lullilooing
  7. lulliloos
  8. lulling
  9. lullingly
  10. Lullingstone
  11. Lullington

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