Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 6 compound words that contain loins. The most common are listed below. Open loins in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- gird up one's loinsTo prepare oneself for something demanding.
- fruit of one's loinsOne's child or, collectively, one's children or descendants.
- pork loinsplural of pork loin: A cut of pig meat from along the top of the rib cage
- short loinsplural of short loin: A cut of beef from the hind quarters of a steer or heifer, behind the ribs, including the top loin and the tenderloin, usually cut into steaks.
- strip loinsplural of strip loin: beef tenderloin
- top loinsplural of top loin: The tender meat from the front portion of loin of beef, usually cut into steak.
- fruits of one's loinsplural of fruit of one's loins: One's child or, collectively, one's children or descendants.
- gird one's loinsAlternative form of gird up one's loins: To prepare oneself for something demanding.
- girded one's loinssimple past and past participle of gird one's loins
- girded up one's loinssimple past and past participle of gird up one's loins
- girding one's loinspresent participle and gerund of gird one's loins
- girding up one's loinspresent participle and gerund of gird up one's loins
- girds one's loinsthird-person singular simple present indicative of gird one's loins: To prepare oneself for something demanding.
- girds up one's loinsthird-person singular simple present indicative of gird up one's loins: To prepare oneself for something demanding.
- girt up one's loinssimple past and past participle of gird up one's loins
Compound words 6
- tenderloinsplural of tenderloin: The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially of pork or beef.
- nataloinsplural of nataloin: A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes (Aloe spectabilis).
- purloinsthird-person singular simple present indicative of purloin: To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
- sirloinsplural of sirloin: A cut of beef from the lower part of the back, where the last ribs are (called rump in UK English).
- striploinsplural of striploin: beef tenderloin
- surloinsplural of surloin: rare spelling of sirloin