loofah

noun

1. Any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd.
2. The dried fibrous interior of such a plant, used as a sponge for bathing.
3. Any bath sponge; a sponge on a handle.

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To clean or scrub with a loofah.

   “And she took good care of my feet, massaging them and loofahing the calluses away.”

   “I may have snuck in showering myself—plus shaving, loofahing, hair blow-drying, reapplying makeup, changing my outfit five times, and winding up in what I started out with.”