Crossword clues for loofah
loofah
- Elongated tropical fruit
- Bathtub item
- Sponge used in a 39-Across
- Spa item
- Bather's exfoliant
- The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa
- Used as a washing sponge or strainer
- Tropical vine of the gourd family
- An idiot backed hard bathroom sponge
- Sponge ass's back - pleased expression
- Send back dessert, a hot sort of sponge
- Husband, an idiot, turning over scrubber in bath
- Rebellious kid regularly hiding bath sponge
- Bath sponge made from dried plant fibres
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1879, from Egyptian Arabic lufah, the name of the plant (Luffa ægyptiaca) with fibrous pods from which flesh-brushes are made.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tropical vine, of the genus (taxlink Luffa genus noshow=1), having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd 2 The dried fibrous interior used as a sponge for bathing
WordNet
n. the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer [syn: loofa, luffa, loufah sponge]
the bathroom loofah [syn: vegetable sponge, Luffa cylindrica]
Usage examples of "loofah".
For a moment, she wished they were at home, in her bathroom, with a bottle of chilled Chenin Blanc and a large loofah, but then she acknowledged there would be time for that tomorrow.
He headed straight for the water jars and ladled dipperfuls of water over himself, scrubbing himself down with a handful of lye soap and a loofah sponge.
Old women in white coats were clattering around wit hi loofahs and stainless-steel buckets and throwing water over motionless pink men on slabs.
She didn't have to go to Tangier to buy loofahs and orange sticks.
Beside them were half a dozen towels, the loofah, the pumice stone, the soap, the soap for when the first soap got lost, the ladle for fishing spiders out, the waterlogged rubber duck with the prolapsed squeaker, the bunion chisel, the big scrubbing brush, the small scrubbing brush, the scrubbing brush on a stick for difficult crevices, the banjo, the thing with the pipes and spigots that no one ever really knew the purpose of, and a bottle of Klatchian Nights bath essence, one drop of which could crinkle paint.
There were things laid out on a fluffy towel beside it -huge scrubbing brushes, three kinds of soap, a loofah.
She rapidly shampooed and loofahed herself, and three minutes later jumped out of the shower.