For any help you can give I would be most grateful. Well, we normally ignore all non-etymological queries but we've just had a tax refund and we're feeling magnanimous. Of course, these lists apply only to English. Read about other words in our bookstore. It is quite simply the Egyptian Arabic word lufah.
Many people assume that the loofah, like the sponge, is a denizen of the ocean depths.
We are not surprised that you couldn't find this word in a dictionary. As far as we can tell, it occurs only once in medieval literature - in a work from around 1205. The Old English for adder was naedre but, over time, a naedre became wrongly divided as an adder . Any help you could provide would be appreciated. Well we sometimes use the term pissant , but only when discussing entomology.