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loofah

[ loo-fuh ]

noun

  1. Also called dish·cloth gourd [dish, -klawth gawrd],
    1. any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, of the gourd family, bearing large, elongated fruit.
    2. the fruit of such a vine.
  2. 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

  1. the fibrous interior of the fruit of the dishcloth gourd, which is dried, bleached, and used as a bath sponge or for scrubbing
  2. another name for dishcloth gourd
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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

This is when you have to stand in the shower for a solid 30 minutes, as your nerves slowly come back to life from their cryogenic state, before even picking up the loofah and soap.

It’s sort of like the brain is a loofah full of sudsy soap sitting in the middle of a tub and the waves are hands reaching out to squish it clean.

Once I step out of the shower, these towels act like a loofah, I can actually feel the moisture wicking off of my body every time I use them.

“Intercourse felt, often, like shoving a loofah into a mason jar,” she writes, for example.

She had found a loofah, two sponges and some cakes of soap elaborately arranged in a pattern on the bathroom floor.

So Leslie picked up her chum's rough towels, her loofah and her verbena-scented soap.

It is devoid of any lining, and its texture puts one in mind of a loosely made loofah.

It weaves a nest which looks like a ragged loofah with a hole in the side.

Eleanor is the roughest and toughest loofah that was ever known.

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