User:LastFlight14/Draft
Appearance
Aloof
See Also
[edit]Reference
[edit]Syllabication
[edit]- a*loof
Definitions
[edit]- Not friendly or forthcoming; cool and
distant:
- Conspicuously uninvolved and
uninterested, typically through distaste.
Origin
[edit]mid 16th century: from a- 2 (expressing direction) + luff. The term was originally an adverb in nautical use, meaning 'away and to windward!', i.e., with the ship's head kept close to the wind away from a lee shore, etc., toward which it might otherwise drift. From this arose the sense 'at a distance' literally or figuratively.