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▪ I. loo, n.1|luː|
Also 6, 8 lu, 8 liew, lue.
[abbreviated f. lanterloo.]
1. A round card-game played by a varying number of players. The cards in three-card loo have the same value as in whist; in five-card loo the Jack of Clubs (‘Pam’) is the highest card. A player who fails to take a trick or breaks any of the laws of the game is ‘looed’, i.e. required to pay a certain sum, or ‘loo’, to the pool. limited loo, unlimited loo: see quots. 1830, 1883.
b. The fact of being looed.
c. The sum deposited in the pool by a player who is looed.
1675Wycherley Country Wife Epil., They..May kiss the Cards at Picquet, Hombre,—Lu, And so he thought to kiss the Lady too. 1680Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xx. Lanterloo 102 If three, four, five or six play, they may lay out the threes, fours, fives, sixes and sevens to the intent they may not be quickly loo'd; but if they would have the loos come fast about then play with the whole pack. Ibid. 104 If any be loo'd he must lay down so much for his loo as his five Cards amount to. 1710Brit. Apollo III. No. 5. 2/2 A. gives B. 3s. 6d. to Play for him at Liew... B. had lost all but 5d. and there was a Liew down of 2s. 6d. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock iii. 62 Ev'n mighty Pam, that Kings and Queens o'erthrew And mow'd down armies in the fights of Lu. 1731Swift To Dr. Helsham 16 Yet, ladies are seldom at ombre or lue sick. 1777Colman Epil. Sch. Scand. in Prose on Sev. Occas. (1787) III. 215 And as Backgammon mortify my soul That pants for Lu, or flutters at a Vole. 1796Jane Austen Pride & Prej. (1885) I. viii. 30 On entering the drawing room, she found the party at loo. 1823Southey in Life (1849) I. 89 In the evening my aunt and I generally played at five-card loo with him. 1830R. Hardie Hoyle made familiar 70 At Limited Loo those who play and do not get a trick pay into the pool only the price of the deal, while at Unlimited Loo they pay the whole amount that happens to be in the pool at the time. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg., Ld. Thoulouse xii, I should like to see you Try to sauter le coup With this chap at short whist, or unlimited loo. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. i. (1889) 2 They..played billiards until the gates closed, and then were ready for..unlimited loo..in their own rooms. 1883H. Jones in Encycl. Brit. XV. 1/1 If there is a loo in the last deal of a round, the game continues till there is a hand without a loo. Ibid. 1/2 At unlimited loo each player looed has to put in the amount there was in the pool. But it is generally agreed to limit the loo, so that it shall not exceed a certain fixed sum. Thus, at eighteen-penny loo, the loo is generally limited to half a guinea. 1885Farjeon Sacred Nugget xv, The game being loo, six shillings ‘tit-up’, limited to two guineas. Ibid., ‘Let it be club law’... So club law it was, and the loos became more frequent.
2. A party playing at loo.
1760H. Walpole Let. to G. Montagu 7 Jan., There were two tables at loo, two at whist, and a quadrille. I was commanded to the duke's loo. Mod. (Ireland) Are you coming to my loo?
†3. Party, set. Phr. for the good of the loo: ‘for the benefit of the company or community’ (Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue 1785). Obs.
1764H. Walpole Let. to Hertford 27 May, Lady Falkener's daughter is to be married to..Mr. Crewe, a Maccarone and of our loo. 1774Association Delegates Colonies 12 They shall be..sold Auction-wise, for the Good of the Loo.
4. attrib. and Comb., as loo club; loo-table, a table for playing loo upon; now the trade designation of a particular form of round table, originally devised for this purpose.
1789C. Smith Ethelinde (1814) II. 130 Dinner was no sooner over, than the loo-table was introduced into the drawing-room. 1830R. Hardie Hoyle made familiar 72 The following [laws] are those observed at the Loo Clubs. 1862Trollope Orley F. I. vi. 46 A round loo-table.
▪ II. † loo, n.2 Obs. exc. Hist.
[F. loup: see loup.]
A velvet mask partly covering the face, worn by females in the 17th century to protect the complexion. Chiefly attrib. in loo mask.
1690Evelyn Ladies Dressing-R. 10 Loo Masks, and whole, as wind does blow, And Miss abroad's dispos'd to go. ― Fops Dict. 18 Loo Mask, an half Mask. 1839W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard i. ii, Blueskin..turning..beheld a young female, whose features were partially concealed by a loo, or half mask, standing beside him.
▪ III. loo, n.3|luː|
[Hind., f. Skr. ulkā flame.]
The name given in Bihar and the Punjab to a hot dust-laden wind.
1888Kipling Phantom 'Rickshaw 78 The loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees. a1936― Something of Myself (1937) iv. 98 A hot wind, like the loo of the Punjab. 1954O. H. K. Spate India & Pakistan ii. 55 In the NW hot weather depressions generally take the form of violent dust-storms... Such dust-storms are distinct from the loo, a very hot dust-laden wind which may blow for days on end. 1965E. Ahmad Bihar iv. 45 The hot scorching ‘loo’ winds of the Bihar plains during late April and May have an average velocity of 5–10 miles per hour. 1974M. Peissel Great Himalayan Passage xi. 175 The Loo is caused by the hot expanding air of the Indian plains rushing into the cool hills.
▪ IV. loo, n.4|luː|
[Etym. obscure.]
A privy, a lavatory. Also attrib. and Comb.
A. S. C. Ross's examination of possible sources in Blackw. Mag. (1974) Oct. 309–16 is inconclusive: he favours derivation, in some manner that cannot be demonstrated, from Waterloo.
[1922Joyce Ulysses 556 O yes, mon loup. How much cost? Waterloo. Watercloset. 1932N. Mitford Christmas Pudding ix. 137 The absence in his speech of such expressions as ‘O.K. loo’..‘we'll call it a day’.] 1940― Pigeon Pie ii. 27 In the night when you want to go to the loo. 1943C. Beaton in Horizon Jan. 37 They had dressed, teeth brushed, breakfasted, had visited the loo, and were on their precarious journey all in a question of fifteen minutes. 1944Auden For Time Being (1945) 20 Between the bottle and the ‘loo’ A lost thing looks for a lost name. 1954Koestler Invis. Writing xxxix. 419 The story of ‘the loo-tank papers’..is another instance of the cloak-and-dagger atmosphere. 1955G. Freeman Liberty Man ii. vi. 113 Johnnie, do take him to the loo, there's a good boy. 1957P. Wildeblood Main Chance 57 The loo's on the landing, if you want to spend a penny. 1960C. Mackenzie Greece in my Life 23, I think I should sigh for the old Grande Bretagne Hotel in spite of the squalor of the loo which was no paradise for dysentery. 1971Petticoat 17 July 31/2 You can wait until he goes to the loo or, if he appears to have a bladder like an ox, send him to the kitchen for more coffee. 1972Guardian 23 Feb. 18/5 Matching bathmats ({pstlg}2.20)..and loo seat covers ({pstlg}1.80 and {pstlg}1.12). 1973E. McGirr Bardel's Murder iv. 85 A neighbouring cat had come through the window and made away with the loo brush. 1974Observer 28 Apr. 28/6 The loo rolls unfurling across the pitch.
▪ V. loo, v.1|luː|
[f. loo n.1]
trans. To subject to a forfeit at loo (see loo n.1 1). to loo the board (see quot. 1883).
1680Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) xx. 102 If you play and are loo'd (that is, win never a trick). Ibid. 103 He who hath five Cards of a suit in his hand loos all the Gamesters then playing,..and sweeps the board. c1750Shenstone To a Friend, I'll play the cards come next my fingers—Fortune cou'd never let Ned loo her, When she had left it wholly to her. 1797Sporting Mag. X. 304 The whole sum which happens to be down at the time when he is looed. 1862H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III. 240 General Mainwaring had been looed in miss four times running. 1883H. Jones in Encycl. Brit. XV. 1/2 A flush..loos the board, i.e., the holder receives the amount of a loo from every one, and the hand is not played. 1885Farjeon Sacred Nugget xv, [He] suggested that ‘black Jack should loo the board’..so black Jack looed the board, and the loos became more frequent still. Ibid. xvi, It was proposed that the stakes should be raised to five guineas unlimited... Each player put in five guineas, making a total of twenty-five guineas, which sum represented the amount a player would be looed for. 1886D. C. Murray First Person Singular xviii. 134 To hold King, Knave, nine, and get looed on it.
b. transf. and fig. (See quots.) Now dial.
1706Estcourt Fair Examp. i. i. 10 For let me tell ye, Madam, Scandal is the very Pam in Conversation, and you shou'd always lead it about for the good of the Board; spare no body, every one's pleas'd to see their Neighbour Loo'd. a1845Hood Storm at Hastings v, No living luck could loo him! Sir Stamford would have lost his Raffles to him! 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer., Looed, defeated. A term borrowed from the game called loo. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Looed, thwarted, ‘check-mated’. 1888Sheffield Gloss. s.v., When a cutler agrees to make a number of knives for a fixed sum and has not finished them when pay-time comes he is said to be lood.
▪ VI. † loo, v.2 Obs. exc. dial.
[aphet. f. halloo v. Cf. loo int.]
trans. To incite by shouting ‘halloo’; to urge on by shouts; = halloo v. 1 b. Const. at, upon, or inf.
1666–7Denham Direct. Paint. ii. 15 And therefore next uncouple either Hound, And loo them at two Hares ere one be found. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 40 (1713) II. 8 The Rabble 'lood to worry it [sc. the Government] as tyrannical and unjust. 1682Shadwell Medal of John Bayes Ep. A i j, Young fellows, (who clap him on the back,..and loo him on upon the Whiggs, as they call 'em). 1689State Eur. in Harl. Misc. I. 195 England and Holland are desperately bruised through mutual buffetings, to which France cunningly looed them on. 1711Vind. Sacheverell 9 Ben was pitch'd upon..to hollow the Hounds together, to looe them full cry at Monarchy.
▪ VII. loo, int.|luː|
Also written 'loo; in 7 lo, lowe.
[abbreviated f. halloo.]
A cry to incite a dog to the chase; = halloo. Also loo in! Also quasi-n.
1605Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 79 Alow: alow, loo, loo. 1606― Tr. & Cr. v. vii. 10 Now bull, now dogge, lowe, Paris, lowe. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 4 (1713) I. 19 Ho loo Bob! Loo Crop, Loo, Loo, Loo, Smug! Ibid. No. 39 I. 255 'Loo my Dog Tutty..speak to 'em Tutty. 1718F. Hutchinson Witchcraft 266 Presently a Hare did rise very near before him, at the Sight whereof he cried Loo, Loo, Loo; but the Dogs would not run. 1810J. Wood Let. 27 May in Life of S. Butler (1896) I. 61 The youths are brought up with a rooted objection to St. John's, and, like bull-dogs of true breed, are always ready to fall upon us at the loo of their seniors. 1830R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunt. Songs i. i. (1883) 1 His cheer by the echo repeated, 'Loo in! little dearies! 'loo in! 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. ix, A perfect pack in full cry, with a human chorus of ‘Hoo rat! Too loo! loo dog!’ 1881Jefferies Wood Magic I. i. 19 Bevis..called ‘Loo! Loo!’ urging the dog on.
▪ VIII. loo
var. lew, and loor dial.; Sc. form of love. |