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Wiktionary

  1. v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of ululate.

Etymologies

  1. Latin ululāre, ululāt-, ultimately of imitative origin.

Examples

  • “Rather than endeavoring to redefine itself as a party of well-reasoned, informed conservative viewpoints, GOP politicians are simply crawling back to the usual bunch of idiots -- a group that ululates resonantly while carrying an ever-more puny stick.”

    Stuart Whatley: Teabagging: Redux Anti-Intellectualism

  • “Noting that the Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei has blamed Britain in particular for fomenting the Iranian protests, Boris ululates:”

    Obama Derangement Syndrome strikes London's Mayor

  • “I know some hipper-than-thou sort is going to make fun of me for being nearly a month late noting blowupdoll's bizarro collection of Beatle-related songs - including a girl Beatle band, Yoko ululating about the joys of being Mrs. Lennon I'm assuming she ululates....”

    Archive 2009-04-01

  • “A riot of golds and greens and ruby-reds swirls and ululates across the page, what is it?”

    Simon & Schuster: Fall On Your Knees

  • “_Cabri-des-bois_, [14] or _cra-cra_, almost deafens you with the wheezy bleating sound by which it earned its creole name; birds pipe: everything that bells, ululates, drones, clacks, guggles, joins the enormous chorus; and you fancy you see all the shadows vibrating to the force of this vocal storm.”

    Two Years in the French West Indies

  • “The still-living Qaddafi is seen begging for mercy just before he is apparently executed as the crowd ululates and fires its Kalashnikov rifles in the air.”

    FOXNews.com

  • “His spot leaps out of the video clip: singing in English and Creole, he ululates in a way that reaches back to Afro-Haitian roots.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “Eyes blazing, Jeanne ululates that I should have gone to the furniture warehouse on the edge of town, the one with the fake façade and all the overpriced repro tat for sale.”

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph

  • “It's p2pnet's textual representation of old-time Tarzan star registered, but what they'd really like to do is copyright it - nail it down so every time someone ululates the ululation, someone else gets paid.”

    p2pnet news

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