Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Community, tribe: basic social organization of the Mapuche, Huilliche, and Picunche peoples, a (familial) clan which recognizes the authority of a lonco.
Etymologies
- From Mapudungun lof ("community"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“On that day I had nothing to desire; I had greatly annoyed my principal enemy; I was young, strong; I had friendship; I had the love "(he said" lof ")" of woman, a child I had, to make my heart very full -- and even what I had once dreamed in my sleep had come into my hand too! ”
“Funny, as I foudn this through the usual Google weirdness lof links.”
“Yeah the actions scenes & FX are ok (except that the Dr. Manhattan 3D integrations with other characters in the scenes are awful and I dont believe it a split second), yes there is lot of meat in the story and its not your dumb average super-zero movie, lof of good scenes with high visual impact, etc, etc.”
“I have to agree with you Nich, the site is badly run with a lof of phrases in every blog post that don't make sense.”
“Winning a lof of Grammy Awards does not qualify you for Congressional recognition.”
“Israel has been enabled by US vetoes and funding and weapons to blow off UN Resolution 242 since 1967, and their "settling" of lands occupied by Arabs and Muslims for many centuries in violation of the Geneva Conventions and dozens of UN resolutions makes them the consummate "rogue nation" in defiance of all manner lof international law, with their hundreds of nukes a stark violation of the NPT.”
Palin warns of 'Second Holocaust' if Iran gains nuclear weapons
“I spend a lof of time writing blogs that never get posted or get deleted by permalink within an hour.”
“She has the bad habit of creating a lof of smoke over some tiny little comment or blog and now I am wondering.”
“The Dutch were wordier but equally sensible: “Mijn lof zal hier na altijt even frisch aengroeien” (my fame shall ... grow fresh — a nod to the abundance of sea air, perhaps).”
“I recently attended Arisia, a Boston-area science fiction/fantasy/a lof of other things conference.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lof’.
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Anglish
Words that can replace Latinates.
frosent, gainsay, fremd, inrush, frain, huru, wordbook, wordstock, byspel, elfshine, infaru, glam and 98 more...
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outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22408 more...
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Anglo-Saxon/Old English
Anglo-Saxon rootwords
mote, huru, byspel, elfshine, infaru, snotor, dern, upspring, meed, lof, queem, hof and 83 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lof.
AnWulf Also lofe; in both lof and lofe pronounce the 'o' long as in lofe. Oct 3, 2011
AnWulf lof n. praise, glory, repute / song of praise, hymn.
II. (in poems, skalds, skops) n. protection, help. Oct 3, 2011