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loaf


loaf 2[lohf] SynonymsExamplesWord Origin verb (used without object)

  1. to idle away time: He figured the mall was as good a place as any for loafing.
  2. to lounge or saunter lazily and idly: We loafed for hours along the water’s edge.

verb (used with object)

  1. to pass idly (usually followed by away): to loaf one’s life away.

Origin of loaf 2 1825–35, Americanism; back formation from loafer Related formsun·loaf·ing, adjectiveSynonyms for loaf 2. loll, idle. Related Words for loafs cube, bun, pastry, cake, dough, slab, laze, loll, twist, mass, roll, lump, trifle, lie, stall, slack, relax, goldbrick, dillydally, loiter Examples from the Web for loafs Contemporary Examples of loafs

  • Quite a few of these loafs use potato starch and tapioca starch in attempts to produce a lighter, fluffier product.

    How to Buy Gluten-Free Without Getting Duped

    DailyBurn

    April 12, 2014

  • Historical Examples of loafs

  • He loafs in Frank’s room until Frank has had to give up smoking.

    Stanford Stories

    Charles K. Field

  • They tell me he’s turned Atheist, and loafs about all Sunday with a gun.

    The Giant’s Robe

    F. Anstey

  • He struts and loafs through the kitchen and lords it over the men.

    Comrades

    Thomas Dixon

  • It is the adolescent who loafs and dawdles on street corners.

    Tramping on Life

    Harry Kemp

  • One of them loafs across and explains to the Tribal Herald, who, next week, cries aloud that the road ought to be mended.

    Letters of Travel (1892-1913)

    Rudyard Kipling

  • British Dictionary definitions for loafs loaf 1 noun plural loaves (ləʊvz)

    1. a shaped mass of baked bread
    2. any shaped or moulded mass of food, such as cooked meat
    3. slang the head; senseuse your loaf!

    Word Origin for loaf Old English hlāf; related to Old High German hleib bread, Old Norse hleifr, Latin libum cake loaf 2 verb

    1. (intr) to loiter or lounge around in an idle way
    2. (tr foll by away) to spend (time) idlyhe loafed away his life

    Word Origin for loaf C19: perhaps back formation from loafer Word Origin and History for loafs loaf n.

    late 13c., from Old English hlaf “portion of bread baked in a mass of definite form,” from Proto-Germanic *khlaibuz (cf. Old Norse hleifr, Swedish lev, Old Frisian hlef, Old High German hleib, German Laib, Gothic hlaifs “bread, loaf”), of uncertain origin, perhaps connected to Old English hlifian “to raise higher, tower,” on the notion of the bread rising as it bakes, but it is unclear whether “loaf” or “bread” is the original sense. Finnish leipä, Old Church Slavonic chlebu, Lithuanian klepas probably are Germanic loan words. Meaning “chopped meat shaped like a bread loaf” is attested from 1787.

    loaf v.

    1835, American English, back-formation from loafer (1830), which often is regarded as a variant of land loper (1795), a partial loan-translation of German Landläufer “vagabond,” from Land “land” + Läufer “runner,” from laufen “to run” (see leap). But OED finds this connection “not very probable.” Related: Loafed; loafing.

    Idioms and Phrases with loafs loaf

    see half a loaf is better than none.

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