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Loaf

noun

(pl. loaves)

1.

A shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating. Synonym: loaf of bread.

2.

A quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape. "Sugar loaf" , "A loaf of cheese"

verb

(past & past part. loafed; pres. part. loafing)

1.

Be lazy or idle. Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time.

2.

Be about. Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry. "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"

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"Loaf" Quotes from Famous Books

... organs of taste on behalf of the darker bread, and the browner flour—and dyspeptic old gentlemen or mammas who have over-pampered their sickly darlings, listen to his fervid warnings, and the star of the brown loaf is for a month ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 • Various

... remain here, while the fighting is going on somewhere else. Besides, he always manages to dine a good deal better than we do. His fellows, being Portuguese, are able to get supplies, when the peasants are all ready to take their oath that they have not so much as a loaf of bread or a fowl ...

— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty

... study law with Judge Rawdon. My late experience has taught me its value. I do not think I shall loaf in ...

— The Man Between • Amelia E. Barr

... have been to entertain Reggie Forcus and Mr. Gibbon at the same board, Bessie often felt. But the days when Reggie had dropped in to meals with the prosperous Days in Queen Anne Street were over for ever. Half a loaf was better than no bread. To know that a male creature, who could not be indifferent to her, was an inmate of the house was as she often ...

— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann

... miserable without luxury. If you had your choice between love without luxury and luxury without love, it'd be as easy to foretell which you'd do as to foretell how a starving poet would choose between a loaf of bread and a volume of poems. You may love love; but you love life—your ...

— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

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