v. rare. [Imitative.] intr. To utter the cries by which certain African peoples express delight.
1857. Livingstone, Trav., i. 25. The women clapping their hands … and lullilooing for joy.
1886. Burton, Arab. Nts. (Abr. ed.), I. 191. Then the singing-girls beat their tabrets and lulliloo’d with joy.
[1889. H. M. Stanley, in Daily News, 26 Nov., 5/8. The female followers … set up a shrill lululus on seeing their own lake again.]
