loaf
1a 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.
Origin of loaf
1Other definitions for loaf (2 of 2)
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.
to pass idly (usually followed by away): to loaf one's life away.
Origin of loaf
2synonym study For loaf
Other words for loaf
Other words from loaf
- un·loaf·ing, adjective
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How to use loaf in a sentence
I went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)This box was directly over a wooden canopy where the mahouts loafed between fights.
The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrathMost of us pretended to look for them and loafed about the neighbouring slums.
A Tramp's Notebook | Morley RobertsHis fingers loafed over the leaves, as he listened to the persistent drive of the storm.
Mountain | Clement WoodHe cocked up the other ear at sound of voices on the porch and loafed up and sat down on the edge of the boarding.
Blow The Man Down | Holman Day
British Dictionary definitions for loaf (1 of 2)
/ (ləʊf) /
a shaped mass of baked bread
any shaped or moulded mass of food, such as cooked meat
slang the head; sense: use your loaf!
Origin of loaf
1British Dictionary definitions for loaf (2 of 2)
/ (ləʊf) /
(intr) to loiter or lounge around in an idle way
(tr foll by away) to spend (time) idly: he loafed away his life
Origin of loaf
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with loaf
see half a loaf is better than none.
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