delulu

English

Etymology

Clipping with reduplication of delusional, popularized by K-pop fandom.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

delulu (comparative more delulu, superlative most delulu)

1. (Internet slang) Delusional. [from 21st c.]
   • 2012 January 13, @zingapprentice, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-07-22:

     I literally think someone gave me drugs while I was sleeping... Im so delulu right now what on earth

   • 2020, Arushi Raj, Understand K-pop, page 129:

     Most of the fans sending hate to the idol would claim that they are not delulu fans but they just want the idol out of the group because the group's growth will be affected by the wrath of delulu fans.

   • 2020, River L. Davis, As Above So Below: The Rise of the Southern Obeah, unnumbered page:

     "You are so delulu boy. You need Jesus." Inez sighed.

   • 2023 June, Zack Zwiezen, “Why is everyone delulu online?”, in USTimesPost:

     You are delulu if you still think about someone you once met years before.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:delulu.

Noun

delulu (countable and uncountable, plural delulus)

1. (Internet slang) Delusion.
2. (Internet slang) A delusional person.

Derived terms

• delulu pills
• solulu
• trululu

 

Descendants

• → Russian: де́лулу (délulu)
• → Ukrainian: де́лулу (délulu)