Lula

name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name.

    "But Lula Ann Bridewell is no longer available and she was never a woman. Lula Ann was a sixteen-year-old-me who dropped that dumb countrified name as soon as I left high school. I was Ann Bride for two years until I interviewed for a sales job at Sylvia, Inc., and, on a hunch, shortened my name to Bride, with nothing anybody needs to say before or after that memorable syllable."

  2. 2
    Ellipsis of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Etymology

19th-century variant of Lulu, nickname of Louisa and Lucy. In rare cases, shortened from Tallulah.

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