a. [adj. use of la la interj.: see LA int. b.] ‘So-so,’ not so good as it might be, poor.
1800. in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1801), IV. 253. Finding my appetite very la, la, took two glasses of bitters.
1806. Surr, Winter in London, I. 240. As to his singing, it is but la la.
a. 1849. H. Coleridge, Ess. (1851), II. 94. A species of Composition so la-la and lackadaisacal.
