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Lillibullero|lɪlɪbəˈlɪərəʊ|
Forms: 7 lilli burlero, Lilly Burleighre, 8 lilibolaro, lille-, lilla-, 8– lillibullero.
[Unmeaning.]
Part of the refrain (hence, the name and the tune) of a song ridiculing the Irish, popular about 1688.
1688Pol. Ballads (1860) I. 275 Ho! broder Teague, dost hear de decree? Lilli Burlero, bullen a-la Dat we shall have a new deputie. 1689Diary in Topographer (1790) 32 The Chimes at St. Michaels..haveing for some time been made to strike Lilli Burlero. 1697Vanbrugh æsop v. 66 Dol, de tol dol, dol dol, de tol dol: Lilly Burleighre's lodg'd in a Bough. 1714Gay Sheph. Week Sat. 116 He sung of Taffey Welch. and Sawney Scot, Lille-bullero, and the Irish Trot. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy II. ii, He..accustomed himself..to whistle the Lillabullero. 1760H. Walpole Let. to Sir D. Dalrymple 3 Feb., The mob will never sing lillibullero but in opposition to some other mob. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ix. (ed. 5) II. 428 One of the characteristics of the good old soldier is his trick of whistling Lillibullero.
Hence lillibuˈllero v., trans. (nonce-wd.) to sing ‘lillibullero’ over.
1762Sterne Tr. Shandy V. iii, My father managed his affliction otherwise..for he neither wept it away..nor did he..rhyme it, or lillabullero it. |