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looch

looch is the dated form of lohoch.

Meaning of lohoch

Noun

lohoch (plural lohochs)

  1. A medicine in a soft form taken by licking; a lambative, a linctus.
    • We may obtain, then, a just idea of the constitution of this liquid [milk], if we look upon it as a soft, liquid substance, a kind of loch,^* in which caseine, sugar, &c., are dissolved, and in which the fatty or oily substance is distributed in small, rounded atoms. [Footnote *: Loch, or lohoch...1859, Al[fred François] Donné, “Of Professional Nurses”, in Mothers and Infants, Nurses and Nursing. […], Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, →OCLC, page 67

Forms of looch

plurallooches

Questions about looch

What is looch the dated form of?
Looch is the dated form of lohoch.

Words near looch in the dictionary

  1. loobs
  2. looby
  3. Looby Loo
  4. Loobys
  5. Looc
  6. looch
  7. looches
  8. Loochoo
  9. Loochooan
  10. Loochooans
  11. Loochoos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looch (page history and authors); lohoch (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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