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loaf
1[ lohf ]
noun
- a portion of bread or cake baked in a shaped or molded mass, usually oblong with a rounded top:
I try to keep a loaf of sliced bread in the freezer.
- a shaped or molded mass of food, as of ground meat or vegetables:
The loaf is made with lentils and vegetables, and you can see the colorful bits of bell peppers speckled through it.
- British.
- the rounded head of a cabbage, lettuce, etc.
- Slang: Older Use. head or brains:
Use your loaf.
loaf
2[ lohf ]
loaf
1/ ləʊf /
verb
- intr to loiter or lounge around in an idle way
- trfoll byaway to spend (time) idly
he loafed away his life
loaf
2/ ləʊf /
noun
- a shaped mass of baked bread
- any shaped or moulded mass of food, such as cooked meat
- slang.the head; sense
use your loaf!
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Other Words From
- un·loafing adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of loaf1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of loaf1
Origin of loaf2
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
Toaster ovens can do the trick, of course, but while they’re usually long enough to accommodate these extra-large loaves, they can’t always fit more than one slice at a time.
Whether you’re making sourdough bread or loaves made with commercial dry yeast, your bread dough is a living thing.
Unless you’ve missed every single nutrition article since the early 1990s, you probably know that, in a nutritional face-off, a whole-wheat loaf beats Wonder Bread every time.
I dreamed of space telescopes the size of a loaf of bread—not one, but an army, fanning out into orbit like so many advance scouts.
Remove the loaf from the oven, and place it on a wire rack to cool.
He had a special knife designed to cut the dense loaf, and a ceremony to precede cutting the cake.
The featured photo for the list, first of all, is as white as a loaf of Wonder Bread and as male as a football locker room.
This 2-0 was a clear-cut win, a sharp slice through a loaf, no ambiguity, no crumbs.
It is built not in a long bun, but in a half-loaf of fresh, tawny-crusted Italian bread.
In her cramped kitchen she mashed pork fat with oatmeal and sculpted a loaf, which she fried up in patties.
Toward eight o'clock a pretty, capable-looking girl of twelve came out of the house and bought a loaf of bread at the baker's.
The Corn-law compels us to pay three times the value for a loaf of bread.
The brown loaf was cut by a very excited little hostess into five thick squares; the cheese into four.
They were knives; anyway, they were used to spread the delicious morsels of butter on the brown loaf.
A miche is a loaf of fine manchet bread, of good quality; see Cotgrave.
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