loofah

• loofa, luffa

Borrowed from Arabic لُوفَة (lūfa).

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːfə/

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• Rhymes: -uːfə

loofah (plural loofahs)

1. Any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd.
2. The dried fibrous interior of such a plant, used as a sponge for bathing.
3. Any bath sponge; a sponge on a handle.

loofah (third-person singular simple present loofahs, present participle loofahing, simple past and past participle loofahed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To clean or scrub with a loofah.
   • 2006, Scott Dikkers, Peter Hilleren, Destined for Destiny, page 63:

     And she took good care of my feet, massaging them and loofahing the calluses away.

   • 2012, Jill Smolinski, Objects of My Affection:

     I may have snuck in showering myself—plus shaving, loofahing, hair blow-drying, reapplying makeup, changing my outfit five times, and winding up in what I started out with.

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