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loot
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lu?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- Homophone: lute (in accents with yod-dropping)
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch loet, loete ("scoop, shovel, scraper"; > Modern Dutch loet), from Old Dutch *l?ta, from Old Frankish *l?tija (“scoop, ladle”), from Proto-Germanic *hl?þþij? (“ladle”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh?- (“to lay down, deposit, overlay”). Cognate with Scots lute, luyt (“scoop, ladle”), West Frisian loete, lete, Middle Low German l?te (“rake”), French louche ("ladle"; < Germanic). Related to lade, ladle.
Alternative forms
- lute
Noun
loot (plural loots)
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.
Etymology 2
Attested 1788, a loan from Hindustani ??? (l??)/???? (l??, “spoil, booty”), from Sanskrit ?????? (lu??, “to rob, plunder”).The verb is from 1842. Fallows (1885) records both the noun and the verb as "Recent. Anglo-Indian".
In origin only applicable to plundering in warfare.
A figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.
Noun
loot (uncountable)
- The act of plundering.
- the loot of an ancient city
- plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
- (colloquial, US) Any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
- 1956 "Free Loot for Children" (LIFE Magazine, 23 April 1956, p. 131)
- (video games) Items dropped by defeated enemies.
Synonyms
- (plunder): See Thesaurus:booty
See also
- contraband
- manubial
- plunder
Translations
Verb
loot (third-person singular simple present loots, present participle looting, simple past and past participle looted)
- (transitive) To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
- to loot valuables from a temple
- 1833 "Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder", The asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its Dependencies Black, Parbury & Allen, p. 66.
- (intransitive) To steal from.
- to loot a temple for valuables
- (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.
Translations
References
- Samuel Fallows, The progressive dictionary of the English language: a supplementary wordbook to all leading dictionaries of the United States and Great Britain (1885).
Anagrams
- LOTO, OOTL, loto, tool
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lo?t/
- Hyphenation: loot
- Rhymes: -o?t
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch lote.
Noun
loot m (plural loten, diminutive lootje n)
- A sprout, shoot, stem etc. growing on an existing plant part
- Synonym: scheut
- A descendant, offspring.
- Something originating, growing, developing from another.
Derived terms
- loten (to sprout)
- waterloot
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
loot
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of loten
- imperative of loten
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *l?t, from Proto-West Germanic *laud.
Noun
lôot n
- lead (metal)
- Synonym: bli
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “loot”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “loot (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
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winnings
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?n??z/
Noun
winnings
- plural of winning
winnings pl (plural only)
- The spoils of a win; something, usually money, that has been won, usually by gambling.
Antonyms
- (plural-only noun): losings
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