loofah
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6.4
- noun
- /ˈluːfə/
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lufa
- After seeing this pinned on Pinterest, my cousin wrote me and told me that perhaps we should just quit hoarding shower loofahs.
- using a loofah
Whereas this is nice and firm, quite hard, and if you shake it, you can even very lightly hear the loofah seeds jostling around.
- Whereas this is nice and firm, quite hard, and if you shake it, you can even very lightly hear the loofah seeds jostling around.
Examples
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A loofah can make your skin feel smoother when used during a bath.
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IS THAT A LOOFAH?
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And I'm going to say a loofah, correct.
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So I made fun of him for it, and now he likes to take any opportunity to recommend I use a loofah.
Blog text (10) -
Whereas this is nice and firm, quite hard, and if you shake it, you can even very lightly hear the loofah seeds jostling around.
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Loofah.
Fiction book (2001) -
Then scrub their back with a coarse loofah like they're in an Ebola outbreak.
Blog text (17) -
After her shower, she used a loofah to exfoliate her skin.
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He prefers a natural loofah to synthetic sponges for his daily shower routine.
Synonyms
A climbing tropical plant whose fruit becomes a dry fibrous sponge and whose young fruit is eaten
A climbing plant with long tube-like fruit used as food when young and as a sponge when mature
A long climbing plant eaten as a vegetable or dried to make a sponge
A plant fruit used as a natural bath sponge, like a loofah
A long green vegetable with ridges that people eat when young and use as a natural sponge after it dries
Compounds
- Indian
A long green vegetable with ridges that people eat when young and use as a natural sponge after it dries
How Mature
Surface Forms
Etymology
Loofah comes from an Arabic word luf that means 'sponge' and later appeared in Europe as luffa. So the climbing plant is called a loofah because its long fruit has a sponge-like inside when it is ripe.