Lofty

Lofty may refer to:

  • A lofty ideal
  • A nickname for a person of above average height. Also used ironically for persons of below average height.
  • A term of endearment from one matelot to another regardless of rank, rate, seniority, sex, religion, race or sexual persuasion. Used most often, but not exclusively, when one individual can not be bothered to learn another's name.

People

  • Frank "Lofty" England, Jaguar Cars' motorsport manager, and later CEO
  • Donald "Lofty" Large, former SAS soldier and author
  • John "Lofty" Wiseman, former SAS soldier, author and survival skills instructor
  • Nobby "Lofty" Hall, a fine upstanding member of Her Majesty's Royal Navy

Fictional characters

  • Lofty, a personificated crane in the BBC children's series Bob the Builder
  • Lofty, a fictional character on the 1986 animated television series My Little Pony
  • George "Lofty" Holloway, a fictional character in the television series EastEnders
  • Gunner "Lofty" Sugden, a fictional character on the 1970s British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum'

Places

  • Mount Lofty, a peak in the Mount Lofty Ranges in Adelaide South Australia
  • Mount Lofty, a peak on the Eastern edge of the Great Dividing Range in Southeast Queensland, the flanks of which are occupied by a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland also called Mount Lofty.

Music

  • Lofty's Roach Souffle, a 1990 instrumental music album by Harry Connick Jr.

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Famous quotes containing the word lofty:

    “After years of vain familiarity, some distant gesture or unconscious behavior, which we remember, speaks to us with more emphasis than the wisest or kindest words. We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our Friends’ thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Not the intensity, but the durability of lofty feelings makes lofty men.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Roman Virgil, thou that singest
    Ilion’s lofty temples robed in fire,”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)