la
(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas.
(Represents the sound of music or singing.)
(obsolete) (Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.)
(archaic) (Expressing surprise, anger. etc.)
La, ma'am, what doth your la'ship think? the girl that your la'ship saw at church on Sunday, whom you thought so handsome; though you would not have thought her so handsome neither, if you had seen her nearer, but to be sure she hath been carried before the justice for being big with child.
“Oh, la! here come the Richardsons. I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them any longer.”
"La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with us. We're not men. We can't fight you," Miss Jane said.
(often ironic) Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory.
(Liverpool) Lad, kid.