Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pass time at leisure; idle.
- noun A shaped mass of bread baked in one piece.
- noun A shaped, usually rounded or oblong, mass of food.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A portion of bread baked in one lump or mass; a regularly shaped or molded mass of bread; hence, any shaped or molded mass of cake, sugar, or the like.
- noun In the medieval ch. in England, the blessed bread; a eulogia.
- To idle away one's time; lounge; dawdle; play the vagabond; stroll idly and without purpose.
- To pass or spend in idleness, as time; spend lazily; dawdle: with away: as, to
loaf away whole days.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
- noun refined sugar that has been formed into a conical loaf in a mold.
- intransitive verb To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
- transitive verb To spend in idleness; -- with away.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To do nothing, to be
idle . - verb Cockney rhyming slang To
headbutt , (from loaf of bread) - noun A
block ofbread afterbaking . - noun Any
solid block offood , such asmeat . - noun Cockney rhyming slang Shortened from "loaf of bread", the
brain or thehead (mainly in the phraseuse one's loaf ). - noun A solid block of
soap , from which standardbars arecut .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape
- noun a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
- verb be about
- verb be lazy or idle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The loaf is a hearty multigrain loaf with a thick, crunchy crust.
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The taste and crumb are excellent, although the loaf is a little small for my liking.
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I was surprised at how soft it is, since the loaf is about the size of a football field.
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All such arguments boil down to saying that half a loaf is the same as no bread.
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In general, two blacks make a white, half a loaf is the same as no bread.
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'LBJ made it very clear a half a loaf is better than no loaf at all,' Clyburn said Wednesday.
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'LBJ made it very clear a half a loaf is better than no loaf at all,' Clyburn said Wednesday.
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This loaf is based on a Nancy Baggett recipe and is definitely as easy as promised.
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This loaf is based on a Nancy Baggett recipe and is definitely as easy as promised.
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As Moe and many others have noted, half a loaf is better than none.
The woman with the twenty-dollar bill. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
yarb commented on the word loaf
I am fond of the verb, to stand around idly.
November 22, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word loaf
I am fond of the second-to-last WeirdNET definition.
May 13, 2008
reesetee commented on the word loaf
I am fond of the first WeirdNET definition, though I sometimes don't slice before eating.
May 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word loaf
I am fond.
May 13, 2008
yarb commented on the word loaf
rt: It's exquisite to bite into the rounded end of a fresh, unsliced loaf.
May 13, 2008
reesetee commented on the word loaf
Indeed. Nice to know a fellow bread freak. :-)
May 13, 2008
punkin commented on the word loaf
As cockney slang: "Use your loaf and think next time".
loaf (of bread) = head
August 16, 2009