different between loo vs bath

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lu?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lu/
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

Clipped form of halloo.

Interjection

loo

1. A cry to urge on hunting dogs.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of King Lear, Scene xi, ll. 1857 f.:

     Edg. Pilicock sate on pelicocks hill, a lo lo lo.

Alternative forms

• 'loo; lo, lowe (obsolete)

Derived terms

• loo in

Verb

loo (third-person singular simple present loos, present participle looing, simple past and past participle looed)

1. (now dialect, used with at, upon or infinitive) To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.
   • 1667, John Denham, "Directions to a Painter", ll. 21 f.:

     And therefore next uncouple either Hound [sc. George Monck and Prince Rupert],
     And loo them at two Hares ere one be found.

Etymology 2

Clipped form of lanterloo.

Noun

loo (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lanterloo: the card game.
   • 1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, iii, 22:

     Ev'n mighty Pam that Kings and Queens o'erthrew,
     And mow'd down Armies in the Fights of Lu.

   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, To Dr. Helsham, 16:

     Yet, ladies are seldom at ombre or lue sick.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, I, Ch. viii, p. 80:

     On entering the drawing-room, she found the whole party at loo.

2. The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
3. An act that prompts such a penalty.
4. A game of lanterloo.
5. (figuratively) Any group of people.

Alternative forms

• lu, liew, lue (obsolete)

Derived terms

Verb

loo (third-person singular simple present loos, present participle looing, simple past and past participle looed)

1. (transitive) To beat in the card game lanterloo.
   • 1847, Henry Cockton, The Love Match (page 232)

     He was seldom indeed without two good trumps, and therefore almost invariably loo'd those who stood.

2. To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.
3. (figuratively, now dialect) To pay any penalty to any community.

Translations

Etymology 3

From French loup (“wolf; mask, eyemask”). Doublet of wolf.

Noun

loo (plural loos)

1. (fashion, obsolete) A half-mask, particularly (historical) those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.
   • a. 1685, Mary Evelyn, "The Fop-dictionary" in Mundus Muliebris, p. 18:

     Loo Mask. An half Mask.

Derived terms

• loo mask

See also

• domino mask

Etymology 4

From Hindi ????? (ulk?), from Sanskrit ????? (ulk?, “flame”).

Noun

loo

1. (India) A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, "The Man Who Would be King" in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, p. 78:

     It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels.

Etymology 5

Of uncertain etymology, although usually derived in some way from Waterloo, the site of Wellington's 1815 victory over Napoleon, likely via a pun based on water closet. Other suggested derivations include corruptions of French l'eau (“water”), lieu (“place”), lieux d'aisances (“'places of convenience': a lavatory”), lieu à l'anglaise (“'English place': a British-style lavatory”), bordalou (“a diminutive chamber pot”) or gare l'eau (“'mind the water'”), via Scots gardyloo, formerly used in Edinburgh while emptying chamber pots out of windows; the supposed use of "Room 100" as the lavatory in Continental hotels; a popularisation of lew, a regional corruption of lee (“downwind”), in reference to shepherds' privies or the former use of beakheads on that side of the ship for urination and defecation; or a clipped form of the name of the unpopular 19th-century Countess of Lichfield Lady Harriett Georgiana Louisa Hamilton Anson, who was the subject of an 1867 prank whereby her bedroom's namecard was placed on the door to the lavatory, prompting the other guests to begin speaking of "going to Lady Louisa".

Noun

loo (plural loos)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
   • 1940, Nancy Mitford, Pigeon Pie, Ch. ii, p. 27:

     I suppose it is unreal because we have been expecting it [sc. World War II] for so long now, and have known that it must be got over before we can go on with our lives. Like in the night when you want to go to the loo and it is miles away down a freezing cold passage and yet you know you have to go down that passage before you can be happy and sleep again.

   • 2006, Garth Thompson & al., The Guide?s Guide to Guiding, 3rd ed., p. 160:

     Ensure that the tents are well-sited and clean, rubbish bins empty, and that the loos have toilet paper.

2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
   • 2009, Katharina Kane, Lonely Planet: The Gambia and Senegal, p. 275:

     The lack of running water in rural areas often makes Western-style loos hygienic disasters. Suddenly the noncontact squat toilet doesn?t look like such a bad option any more (as long as you roll up your trouser legs).

   • 2010, Meegan Jones, Sustainable Event Management, p. 206:

     Waterless urinals are a great way of keeping the guys out of the cubicle toilets, keeping the urine separated from the solid waste (when using composting loos) and reducing water consumption if you have flush loos.

Synonyms

• (room): See Thesaurus:bathroom
• (fixture): See Thesaurus:toilet

Derived terms

• loo paper
• loo roll
• portaloo

Translations

Etymology 6

Clipped form of lieutenant.

Noun

loo

1. Lieutenant.
   • 2012, J. D. Robb, New York to Dallas, Penguin (?ISBN), page 91

     I asked my loo to let me escort you in. I wanted a moment to thank you personally.” “There's no need.” “So you said before, but there is. And was. I'll take you in to Lieutenant Ricchio.”

References

Anagrams

• OOL

Dutch

Alternative forms

• lo

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lôo, from Old Dutch l?, *l?h, from Proto-West Germanic *lauh, from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz. Cognate with English lea and leigh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?/
• Hyphenation: loo
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

loo n or f (plural loo's or loon)

1. (historical, geography) A clearing in a forest.
   • 1906, Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, page 41.

2. (historical, geography) A forest on sandy soil with (many) clearings.
   • 1930, Nomina geographica Neerlandica, pages 9 & 10.

Derived terms

• Almelo
• Ermelo
• Hengelo
• Het Loo
• Twello
• Venlo
• Waterloo

Estonian

Noun

loo

1. genitive singular of lugu
2. genitive singular of lood
3. genitive singular of loog

Verb

loo

1. present indicative connegative of looma
2. second-person singular imperative of looma

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish lugu, comparative form of bec.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?/

Adjective

loo

1. comparative degree of beg (“small, minor”)

See also

• smoo

Spanish

Verb

loo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of loar.

Xhosa

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lô?]

Pronoun

lóo

1. Alternative form of lowo

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lô?]

Pronoun

lóo

1. Alternative form of lowo

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bäth, IPA^(key): /b???/
  • (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA^(key): [b???]
  • (South Asia) IPA^(key): [b??t??]
  • (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /b???/
• enPR: b?th, IPA^(key): /bæ?/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [bæ??b????be??]
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [ba??bæ?]
• Rhymes: -???, -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþ? (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.

Noun

bath (plural baths)

1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
2. A building or area where bathing occurs.
   • 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture

     Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.

3. (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.

4. The act of bathing.
5. A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.

   a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air

Usage notes

Sense 4. is usually to take (US) or have (UK, Aus) a bath. See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Synonyms

• bain (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bath (third-person singular simple present baths, present participle bathing, simple past and past participle bathed)

1. (transitive) To wash a person or animal in a bath

Translations

Etymology 2

From Hebrew ????? (ba?).

Noun

bath (plural baths)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
   • 1769, Bible (KJV), Ezekiel, 45:10–11:

     Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

Meronyms

• (liquid volume): log (¹?₇₂ bath); cab, kab (¹?₁₈ bath); hin (¹?₆ bath); cor, kor, homer, chomer (10 baths)

Translations

References

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

Anagrams

• Bhat, baht

French

Etymology

From English proper noun Bath where this paper was originally made.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat/

Noun

bath m (plural baths)

1. English high quality letter paper popular in the 19th century.

Adjective

bath (plural baths)

1. Super, great, smashing; beautiful, fine, good, pleasant.

Further reading

• “bath” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English b? þ?.

Determiner

bath

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Conjunction

bath

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Etymology 2

From Old English bæþ, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþ?.

Alternative forms

• baþ, baþþ, baathe, bathth, beað, beð, batth, bæð

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

bath (plural bathes or baðen)

1. A bath or pool, especially one by a hot spring; a body of liquid one immerses oneself in.
   1. A bath supposedly having curative or healing properties.
   2. A bath supposedly having spiritual properties.
   3. (alchemy) A bath used to produce distilled water.
2. The process of having a bath; a bathing.
3. A medicinal bathing; bathing as a treatment.

Derived terms

• Bathe
• bathen
• bathyng

Descendants

• English: bath
• Scots: bath

References

• “bath, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.

Welsh

Etymology 1

Probably from Proto-Celtic *batto-; according to the GPC, possibly related to Latin battuo (“I fight, pound, beat (up)”), though the semantics are far from certain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??/

Noun

bath m (plural bathau)

1. (obsolete) kind, sort

   Synonyms: math, siort, teip

2. stamp, coin

Derived terms

• bathdy (“mint”)
• bathol (“coined, minted”)
• bathu (“to mint”)

Etymology 2

Noun

bath m (plural baths)

1. Alternative spelling of bàth (“bath, bath tub”)

Etymology 3

Noun

bath m (plural baths)

1. Alternative spelling of bàth (“bath (unit of liquid volume)”)

Mutation

References

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “bath”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yola

Alternative forms

• bat

Etymology

From Middle English bat, batte, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin.

Noun

bath (plural bathès)

1. stick

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN