loof

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -uːf

Etymology 1

From Middle English lufe, love, lofe, luf (“palm of the hand”), from Old English lōf, *lōfa, from Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“palm of the hand; paw; oar blade, paddle”).

Noun

loof (plural loofs)

  1. (anatomy, now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The palm of the hand.
  2. (anatomy, now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The hand, especially, the hand outspread and upturned.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lof (“a contrivance for altering a ship's course, paddle, oar”), from Middle Dutch loef (“an oar or paddle used in steering”), ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1.

Noun

loof (plural loofs)

  1. (nautical, obsolete) A contrivance (apparently a paddle or an oar) used for altering the course of a ship.
  2. (nautical) The after part of the bow of a ship where the sides begin to curve.

Noun

loof (uncountable)

  1. The spongy fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa aegyptiaca).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for loof in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /loːf/
  • Hyphenation: loof
  • Rhymes: -oːf

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lôof, from Old Dutch *lōf, from Proto-Germanic *laubą.

Noun

loof n (uncountable)

  1. foliage
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

loof

  1. first-person singular present indicative of loven
  2. imperative of loven

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *lōf, from Proto-Germanic *laubą.

Noun

lôof n

  1. leaf
  2. foliage, leaves

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading
  • “loof”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “loof (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Noun

loof

  1. Alternative form of lof (“loaf”)
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