DEFINITIONS

loaf

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[ lohf ]
/ loʊf /
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noun, plural loaves [lohvz] /loʊvz/.

a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
a shaped or molded mass of food, as of sugar or chopped meat: a veal loaf.
British.
  1. the rounded head of a cabbage, lettuce, etc.
  2. Slang: Older Use. head or brains: Use your loaf.

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Words related to loaf

cube, bun, pastry, cake, dough, slab, laze, loll, twist, mass, roll, lump, trifle, lie, stall, slack, relax, goldbrick, dillydally, loiter

Words nearby loaf

loads, loadspace, loadstar, loadstone, loady, loaf, loaf bread, loaf pan, loaf sugar, loafer, loaiasis

Origin of loaf

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before 950; Middle English lo(o)f, Old English hlāf loaf, bread; cognate with German Laib, Old Norse hleifr, Gothic hlaifs

Definition for loaf (2 of 2)

loaf2
[ lohf ]
/ loʊf /

verb (used without object)

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

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of loaf

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1825–35, Americanism; back formation from loafer

OTHER WORDS FROM loaf

un·loaf·ing, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for loaf (1 of 2)

loaf1
/ (ləʊf) /

noun plural loaves (ləʊvz)

a shaped mass of baked bread
any shaped or moulded mass of food, such as cooked meat
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

British Dictionary definitions for loaf (2 of 2)

loaf2
/ (ləʊf) /

verb

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

Word Origin for loaf

C19: perhaps back formation from loafer
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Idioms and Phrases with loaf

loaf

see half a loaf is better than none.

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