loffe
See also: loffé
Italian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editloffe f
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editloffe (present tense loffar, past tense loffa, past participle loffa, passive infinitive loffast, present participle loffande, imperative loffe/loff)
- (intransitive) to loaf, do nothing in particular
- before 1790, variant lyrics of "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe", printed in Infant Institutes (1790) and quoted by Ralph N. James, "Nursery Rhymes", Notes and Queries, 5th s., no. 3 (5 June 1875), p. 441:
- Then out went th’ old woman to bespeak ’em a coffin,
And when she came back, she found ’em all a-loffeing.
- Then out went th’ old woman to bespeak ’em a coffin,
- before 1790, variant lyrics of "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe", printed in Infant Institutes (1790) and quoted by Ralph N. James, "Nursery Rhymes", Notes and Queries, 5th s., no. 3 (5 June 1875), p. 441:
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editloffe (present tense loffar, past tense loffa, past participle loffa, passive infinitive loffast, present participle loffande, imperative loffe/loff)
- (nautical, transitive, intransitive) to luff
References
edit- “loffe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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