sofa
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
furniture
lifestyle
Etymology: Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”). Cognate with Aramaic צפא/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish.
Inflected forms:
form: sofas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sopha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sofas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sofaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sofaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sofaed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sopha
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
pos: noun
tags: East
Middle
archaic
gloss: An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
pos: noun
examples: He bought a big sofa two days before his relatives arrived.
His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.
I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur
gloss: To furnish with one or more sofas.
pos: verb
examples: The appearance of a student's apartment, though by no means splendid, is decidedly comfortable ; it is well cushioned and sofaed, with a proper proportion of arm chairs, and a general air of respectability — much better on the whole than our student's rooms ever are.
First, it will surprize you to learn that instead of the venerable simplicity which reigns in St. Stephen's chapel, the H. of Representatives, besides being stoved, carpeted, desked, and sofaed in the most luxurious style, rivals and indeed surpasses the Legislature of Paris in decoration and drapery.
I and another therefore entirely occupied our stateroom, which was sofaed round, being just large enough for two to lie down and a third to sit with his feet up and his head on his knees.
It was a lavish, fully draped, fully sofaed, fully radiator-covered nineteenth-century deluxe German hotel suite.
gloss: To seat or lay down on a sofa.
pos: verb
examples: Cliques of three or more are formed, each member of which goes in search of victims, and the first female found complaining of pain in the lower part of her back, is immediately run down, corralled, cornered, so to speak, and sans ceremonie she is at once tabled, sofaed or beded, or in the absence of these relics of refinement she is floored or she may have to submit standing (especially if the doctor is in a hury and meets her at the gate or corner drug store) with an unerring plunge, of a not overly clean index finger, the darksome cavern is penetrated and perhaps, not, a cervix is touched and reveals, of course, a lacerated cervix, just as had been predicted.
A few, feeble words—my first—to tell you I have left my room this morning and am shaven and shorn and dressed and sofaed in my writing room, after a terrible ten days or more.
Many a time back in my boozing days when I was sofaed too.
Related words: love seat
Derived words: cornucopia sofa
moving sofa problem
sofa-bed
sofa-bedstead
sofa constant
sofaful
sofa king
sofaless
sofalike
sofa painting
sofa problem
sofa set
sofa sleeper
sofa-sleeper
sofa spud
sofa surf
sofa surfer
sofa surfing
sofa table
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