loos

• enPR: lo͞oz, IPA^(key): /luːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz
• Homophone: lose

loos

1. plural of loo

From Middle English loos, lōs (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Doublet of laud.

loos (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Praise; fame; reputation.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 12, page 510:

     That much he feared, leaſt reprochfull blame / VVith foule diſhonour him mote blot therefore; / Beſides the loſſe of ſo much loos and fame, / As through the world thereby ſhould glorifie his name.

• lose, los

• “† lose, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “loos”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool

From Proto-Brythonic *lluɨd, from Proto-Celtic *ɸleitos.

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [loːz]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [luːz]

loos

1. grey

   loos:  

   Synonym: glas

2. mouldy

• IPA^(key): /loːs/

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• Hyphenation: loos
• Rhymes: -oːs

From Middle Dutch loos, from Old Dutch *lōs, from Proto-West Germanic *laus, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.

loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)

1. blank, empty
2. idle
3. amiss, wrong, problematic
4. sly, cunning
5. (obsolete) clever, insightful

• loosheid

• -loos

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

loos

1. inflection of lozen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• Oslo

loos

1. loos: praise, fame, reputation
   • c. 1386–1388 (date written)​, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Legende of Good Women: The Legend of Hypsiphile and Medea”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC, folio ccxxiiii, recto:

     So that within a daye, two or thre / She knewe by the folke yͭ in his ſhyppes be / That it was Jaſon full of ronomee / And Hercules that had the grete loos […]

     So that within a day, [or] two or three, / She knew by the folk that in his ships be / That it was Jason, full of renomee [renown], / And Hercules that had the great fame, […]

From Old Frisian *lās (attested only in compounds as -lās), from Proto-West Germanic *laus.

• IPA^(key): /loːs/
• Hyphenation: loos
• Rhymes: -oːs

loos (masculine lozen, feminine, plural or definite loze, comparative lozer, superlative loost)

1. empty
2. loose
3. free, liberated

• (antonym(s) of “empty”): ful
• (antonym(s) of “loose”): ääng

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “loos”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

loos

1. straight
2. correct
3. right (-side)