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loonghee

loonghee is the archaic form of lungi.

Meaning of lungi

Noun

lungi (plural lungis)

  1. A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan.
    • Samad […] regularly wore a long piece of embroidered grey cotton, a lungi, wrapped round his waist.2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 152
    Synonyms:
    sarong

Forms of loonghee

pluralloonghees

Questions about loonghee

What is loonghee the archaic form of?
Loonghee is the archaic form of lungi.

Words near loonghee in the dictionary

  1. looney-tunes
  2. looneys
  3. Looneyville
  4. loong
  5. Loongana
  6. loonghee
  7. loonghees
  8. loonghi
  9. loonghis
  10. loongs
  11. loonie

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