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is loafing

  • present progressive
    of loaf (3rd person singular).
    loaf
    noun
    a portion of bread or cake baked in a shaped or molded mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.

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If somebody comes on and is a bonehead and is loafing through an interview, I resent that, and maybe I will then go after them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The only undignified job I know of is loafing, and nothing can cheapen a man who sponges instead of hunting any sort of work, because he’s as cheap already as they can be made.

From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by George Horace Lorimer

Can't do it," replied Leopold; "my stomach is loafing, too.

From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Charles Felton Pidgin

"Watch him closely, and if he is loafing, signal me."

From Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Hugh S. Fullerton

“I don’t obsarve that any one is loafing about here, getting in the way of honest folks.”

From The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne by Edward Sylvester Ellis