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loofah
[ loo-fuh ]
noun
- Also called dish·cloth gourd [dish, -klawth gawrd],
- any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, of the gourd family, bearing large, elongated fruit.
- the fruit of such a vine.
- Also called veg·e·ta·ble sponge [vej, -t, uh, -b, uh, l spuhnj]. the dried, fibrous interior of this fruit, used as a sponge.
loofah
/ ˈluːfə /
noun
- the fibrous interior of the fruit of the dishcloth gourd, which is dried, bleached, and used as a bath sponge or for scrubbing
- another name for dishcloth gourd
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Word History and Origins
Origin of loofah1
First recorded in 1860–65; from New Latin Luffa the genus, from Arabic lūf
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Word History and Origins
Origin of loofah1
C19: from New Latin luffa, from Arabic lūf
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Example Sentences
“Intercourse felt, often, like shoving a loofah into a mason jar,” she writes, for example.
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She had found a loofah, two sponges and some cakes of soap elaborately arranged in a pattern on the bathroom floor.
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So Leslie picked up her chum's rough towels, her loofah and her verbena-scented soap.
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It is devoid of any lining, and its texture puts one in mind of a loosely made loofah.
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It weaves a nest which looks like a ragged loofah with a hole in the side.
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Eleanor is the roughest and toughest loofah that was ever known.
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