loos
- 1Plural of loo.
The new office added several loos on each floor during the renovation.
Lines formed at the only two loos in the crowded pub.
Note
A regular -s plural, with no -es and no apostrophe: one loo, two loos. The plural belongs to the lavatory and toilet meanings, which are British, Irish and Commonwealth usage. The card-game senses of loo, short for lanterloo, are uncountable and take no plural. The same spelling also belongs to an unrelated older word, the obsolete word for praise.
- 2Praise, renown, or the good reputation earned through one's deeds.
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.
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie QueeneNote
A borrowing that English let drop. Middle English loos came through Old French los from Latin laus, "praise", the same source that gave laud, its surviving doublet. Spenser still pairs it with its near-synonym in The Faerie Queene (1596): "so much loos and fame." To express the idea today, use laud, renown or fame. Loos itself now appears only as a deliberate archaism.
loos is a form of loo
loo, noun: A toilet: the room, or the fixture in it, that people use for urinating and defecating. Full entry
- Forms
- looloos plural
- Spelling
- loo → loos: add -s
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Origin
From Middle English loos or lōs ("reputation, renown, fame, rumor"), from Old French los, from Latin laus ("praise, glory, fame, renown"). It is a doublet of laud.