Lofter vs Loster - What's the difference?
lofter | loster |
(label) An obsolete golf club, the predecessor of the niblick.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter : it was a painful moment for me. ¶ “You might at least have tried me, Mrs. Cooke,” I said.}}
(nonstandard) (lost)
* {{quote-book
, title=
, last=Bellow
, first=Saul
, authorlink=Saul Bellow
, year=1975
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=r0bFQu7Y6SIC&lpg=PA24&dq=loster%20bellow&pg=PA24v=onepage&q=loster%20bellow&f=false
, publisher=Viking
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year=2006
, month=April
, magazine=American Motorcyclist
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=q_UDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA41&dq=loster&pg=PA41v=onepage&q=loster&f=false
, page=41
}}
* {{quote-book
, title=Signspotting III: Lost and Loster in Translation
, last=Lansky
, first=Doug
, year=2009
, publisher=Penguin
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=oWQ_ucH5mOQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=loster&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EYZ1UcuvFNKy0QH5g4G4Cg&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAQ
, page=title
}}
As a noun lofter
is (label) an obsolete golf club, the predecessor of the niblick.As an adjective loster is
(nonstandard) (lost).lofter
English
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* *loster
English
Adjective
- Perhaps, being lost, one should get loster ; being very late for an appointment, it might be best to walk slower, as one of my beloved Russian writers advised.
- You can get loster , faster!
