loaf
(noun) a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape; “meat loaf”; “sugar loaf”; “a loaf of cheese”
loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
(verb) be about; “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”; “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”
bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about
(verb) be lazy or idle; “Her son is just bumming around all day”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
loaf (plural loaves)
(also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
(Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).
A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
• (head, all slang): bonce, noddle, nut
loaf (third-person singular simple present loafs, present participle loafing, simple past and past participle loafed)
(intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.
(Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)
• idle, laze, lounge
• AFOL, Olaf, foal
Source: Wiktionary
Loaf, n.; pl. Loaves. Etym: [OE. lof, laf, AS. hlaf; akin to G. laib, OHG. hleip, Icel. hleifr, Goth. hlaifs, Russ. khlieb', Lith. klëpas. Cf. Lady, Lammas, Lord.]
Definition: Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake. Bacon. Loaf sugar, refined sugar that has been formed into a conical loaf in a mold.
Loaf, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loafed; p. pr. & vb. n. Loafing.] Etym: [G. laufen to run, Prov. G. loofen. See Leap.]
Definition: To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. " Loafing vagabonds." W. Black.
Loaf, v. t.
Definition: To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
