Aug 23, 2012 This week's theme

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lulu

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lulu

PRONUNCIATION:

MEANING:

noun: A remarkable person, idea, or thing.

ETYMOLOGY:

Perhaps from the nickname for Louise. Earliest documented use: 1886.

USAGE:



Robert Klose; "I told my students about an incident from my boyhood, my first-ever interaction with a fungus, and it was a lulu."Robert Klose; The Three-Legged Woman and Other Excursions in Teaching ; University Press of New England; 2010.

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