There are some truly wondrous words in the dictionary, some which are barely pronounceable and others that are foreign to the average person’s vocabulary. But I like that slang words are included in the dictionary, too: they are just as important to our daily life as the more complex words are.
Lulu (noun): slang
A remarkable, incredible, or memorable person or thing, esp. for its unpleasantness (a lulu of a nightmare).
19th c., perhaps from Lulu, pet form of Louise.
This word adequately describes the recent film Splice. Fantastic movie- and highly disturbing.
I feel sorry for anyone named Louise, though; why does the Canadian Oxford English Dictionary assume that the word is associated with the name of a person? I’m guessing that whoever wrote the entry for Lulu has an ex-wife named Louise. Just sayin’.