Lolo
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- noun
- How can this lolo good-for-nothing win again?
Examples
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Mowtios-ek lolo.
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Why aren't those lolos going faster?
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Any lolo can hunt with a gun.
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Oh... some lolo must have stuffed us in the barrel.
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Lilo, you lolo.
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Lafourcade fills this short novel with local color and peppers it generously with the strange language of Chilean lolos, or teenagers.
Academic text (1990) -
I got the idea of scaring them all, everyone inside my house (my mom and my baby sister), as their punishment for putting me in the lolo; lolo's what I call my room when she closes the door and shoves the block box against it so I can't get out.
Fiction book (2002) -
Many Yi people in China speak Lolo, which is one of their traditional languages.
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Understanding Lolo can provide insight into the culture and history of the Lolo people.
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The Lolo language has a variety of dialects spoken by different groups in Southeast Asia.
Synonyms
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A language spoken by the Yi people in China, Vietnam and Thailand
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A language spoken by the Yi people in China, Vietnam and Thailand
A language spoken by the Yi people in China, Vietnam, and Thailand
Compounds
- Specialized
A group of related languages spoken in northern Myanmar and Yunnan, China
- Specialized
A group of related languages spoken in northern Myanmar and Yunnan in China
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lolo comes from the name of the people who speak it, the Lolo also known as Yi. Just like 'English' or 'Spanish', Lolo names both a group of people and their 'language', so the speech heard in parts of China, Vietnam and Thailand is called Lolo.