Definitions for loof

loof loof

Spelling: [loof]
IPA: /luf/

Loof is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in loof (floo).

Definitions for loof

noun

  1. the palm of the hand.
  2. the tapering of a hull toward the stern.
  3. Now Rare. the broad after part of the bows of a vessel.
  4. Now Rare. luff (def 1).

Origin of loof

1300-50; Middle English lofe Old Norse lōfi, cognate with Gothic lōfa

Examples for loof

It was not my hand, it was my fathers: my hand is more black in the loof.

Luff, luf, n. the windward side of a ship: the act of sailing a ship close to the wind: the loof.

The ill-deedy wratches, to blister a' my loof wi' the poker!

Tender hands could not stand it a moment: one dash of a rustic “loof” would make the blood spurt from the tip of every finger.

Nen tek dissa bamboo po' to shove frough dissa ho' in loof—vay quier.

Ay—ay—a black cast to a' their ill-fa'ur'd faces, and the outside o' the loof to them at the last day!

Word Value for loof
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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