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loff

loff is the alternative form of lofe.

Meaning of lofe

Noun

lofe (plural lofes)

  1. (Northern England, West-Midlands) An offer; choice; an opportunity; chance.
    • "Yance I hed t' lofe an' I'd luck to say no, an' I niver hed t' lofe ageàn."—Said by an elderly spinster.1869, Alexander Craig Gibson, The Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent, page 212

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Forms of loff

Noun
pluralloffs
Verb
third-person singular presentloffs
present participleloffing
past participleloffed
pastloffed

Origin of loff

From Middle English lof, from Old English lof (“praise, glory, repute”). More at lofe.

From Middle English loven, from Old English lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”). More at lofe, love (Etymology 2).

Questions about loff

What is loff the alternative form of?
Loff is the alternative form of lofe.

Words near loff in the dictionary

  1. lofepramine
  2. lofer
  3. lofers
  4. lofes
  5. lofexidine
  6. loff
  7. Loffler
  8. Loffredo
  9. Loffredos
  10. loffs
  11. Lofgren

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loff (page history and authors); lofe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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