Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to luff
Participle: luffed
Gerund: luffing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | luff |
| you | luff |
| he;she;it | luffs |
| we | luff |
| you | luff |
| they | luff |
Perfect
| I | have luffed |
| you | have luffed |
| he;she;it | has luffed |
| we | have luffed |
| you | have luffed |
| they | have luffed |
Past
| I | luffed |
| you | luffed |
| he;she;it | luffed |
| we | luffed |
| you | luffed |
| they | luffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had luffed |
| you | had luffed |
| he;she;it | had luffed |
| we | had luffed |
| you | had luffed |
| they | had luffed |
Future
| I | will luff |
| you | will luff |
| he;she;it | will luff |
| we | will luff |
| you | will luff |
| they | will luff |
Future Perfect
| I | will have luffed |
| you | will have luffed |
| he;she;it | will have luffed |
| we | will have luffed |
| you | will have luffed |
| they | will have luffed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | luff |
| you | luff |
| he;she;it | luff |
| we | luff |
| you | luff |
| they | luff |
Perfect
| I | have luffed |
| you | have luffed |
| he;she;it | have luffed |
| we | have luffed |
| you | have luffed |
| they | have luffed |
Imperfect
| I | luffed |
| you | luffed |
| he;she;it | luffed |
| we | luffed |
| you | luffed |
| they | luffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had luffed |
| you | had luffed |
| he;she;it | had luffed |
| we | had luffed |
| you | had luffed |
| they | had luffed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would luff |
| you | would luff |
| he;she;it | would luff |
| we | would luff |
| you | would luff |
| they | would luff |
Perfect
| I | would have luffed |
| you | would have luffed |
| he;she;it | would have luffed |
| we | would have luffed |
| you | would have luffed |
| they | would have luffed |
Imperative
| you | luff |
| we | Let's luff |
| you | luff |
Verbs conjugated like 'luff'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'luff'
bluff,
buff,
cuff,
duff,
fluff,
fuff,
guff,
huff,
laff,
loff,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Old French lof. Collins English Dictionary states that this word is ultimately derived from Middle Dutch loef. Ellert Ekwall's Shakspere's Vocabulary: its etymological elements (1903) related this verb and loof instead to the East Frisian verb lofen, lufen, which would make it cognate to the French term lover.
Sample Sentences
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I thought how my life is like a little boat and I must hold the tiller steady against the buffeting of wind and waves, and how sometimes, like this morning, I lose my hold somehow and the sail luffs helplessly and the little vessel wallows, turning this way and that in the swell. [1993, John Banville, Ghosts:]
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"Helm there! Luff, luff a point! So; steady, man, steady!" [1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:]
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The tower is mounted on a slewing platform, which also carries the power plant and the counterweights, while the jib is supported and luffed by fixed pendant ropes. [1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and Derricks, →ISBN, page 95:]