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LOAF
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
Etymology 1
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• (head, all slang): bonce, noddle, nut
Etymology 2
Verb
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)
Synonyms
• idle, laze, lounge
Anagrams
• 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
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