la-la

Meanings

1. Of indifferent quality; so-so.

1. To sing or recite the syllable la repeatedly.
2. To sing (a song) with la replacing the song lyrics.

1. Something unusually good; (occasionally) something unusually bad.
2. A woman's genitals, especially the vagina; a sexually permissive woman.

1. Alternative form of la la (“clams”).

Etymology

Sounds used to form meaningless song refrains. Of imitative origin. Compare Old English lā, a common exclamation, Greek λαλαγε (lalage, “babble”), German lallen (“to babble”). Compare also blah blah.