Definitions
Etymologies
- see loin (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But "loins" is what we should expect, not "belly" (womb), which applies to the woman.”
“I’d reached the age where lit-up eyes were a rarity for me, so I could feel the whole notion of her steal up my legs and through my loins and upper body every time thereafter when I happened to see her I love the word loins and would like to bring it back.”
“The lumbar region is what is commonly called the loins, sir.”
“In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives.”
“One can only hope that your loins are as barren as your intellect and that you will not have the opportunity to spawn a future generation of hateful little Chrises to carry on your “legacy”.”
“She was beginning to understand that this hollow ache she felt in her loins was a direct response to the virile hardness of Webb.”
“And about his loins was a belt sup - porting a small, fastened case and a long dagger of pointed bone.”
“And about his loins was a belt supporting a small, fastened case and a long dagger of pointed bone.”
“About his loins was the torn skin of a lion and his gray hair hung in wild ragged locks upon his bone-thin shoulders.”
“Round his loins was a tiger-skin, and a lion-skin formed his upper garments.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘loins’.
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Olde Englisc
English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
onslaught, slain, clove, clave, thrice, nincompoop, scorn, storm, scant, lurk, beneath, atop and 143 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
andrew.simone's Words
elan, prestidigitation, flummoxed, autochthonous, missive, hoi polloi, schadenfreude, frou-frou, oolong, burleseque, ontic, etymology and 165 more...
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words I love
uncouth, milquetoast, clusterfuck, salacious, usurp, harpoon, unsavoury, bulwark, legerdemain, qualm, quagmire, trumps and 209 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Evokes memories of books
e.g., The Elements of Style, Franny and Zooey, Portrait of the Artist, This Side of Paradise
egotist, infralapsarian, tetrapyloctomy, impetus, cant, loins, apogee, perigee, omit, quixotic, semiotics, q.e.d. and 15 more...
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Kerrily's Vomitrocious Words
honky tonk, ding-a-ling, awkward, chiffon, dowdy, dawdle, spleen, uvula, lettuce, kielbasa, frankfurter, hamburg and 16 more...
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Anglo-Saxon
...or otherwise early Germanic.
storm, scorn, nincompoop, thrice, clave, clove, slain, onslaught, hew, breadth, hussy, pelt and 57 more...
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Like.
n/a
margarine, aignette, stigmata, loins, honey, satiate, scintillates, lymeric, deborah, markjarin, avarice
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Romeo & Juliet
dignity, grudge, mutiny, civil, fatal, loins, foes, piteous, doth, toil
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words that make me laugh
Tweets
Looking for tweets for loins.
AnWulf Before it was "gird your loins" it was "gird thee lendes"!
Byspels: Tak we þe armor of God..gird þe lendis in trowþ. Oct 19, 2011
AnWulf girden (up) lendes - to wrap (one's, someone's) loins; cover (one's) nakedness; fig. gird (one's) loins, prepare, get ready.
lend or lende in the singular; lendes or lenden in plural. Oct 19, 2011
chained_bear A discussion about girding loins and the origins/meaning of the phrase is on gird. (If, in future, anyone's interested.) Oct 22, 2008
john "And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel."
I Kings 18: 45-46 (KJV) Oct 3, 2007