» loaf
Noun (2 meanings)
1. a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating.
loaf is a type of:
- bread, breadstuff, staff of life (noun) - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
types of loaf:
- French loaf (noun) - a loaf of French bread
- meat loaf, meatloaf (noun) - a baked loaf of ground meat
parts of loaf:
- heel (noun) - one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread
2. a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape.
Examples:
- “meat loaf”,
- “sugar loaf”,
- “a loaf of cheese”
loaf is a type of:
- food, solid food (noun) - any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
types of loaf:
- haslet (noun) - heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs
- headcheese (noun) - sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig
- lunch meat, luncheon meat (noun) - any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold
- pound cake (noun) - rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour
- scrapple (noun) - scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying
- sugarloaf, sugar loaf, loaf sugar (noun) - a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar
Verb (2 meanings)
1. be lazy or idle.
to bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about
Example:
- “Her son is just bumming around all day”
2. be about.
to loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
Examples:
- “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”,
- “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”
to loaf is a way to:
- to be (verb) - have the quality of being
ways to loaf:
to loaf is derivationally related to:
- dallier, dillydallier, dilly-dallier, mope, lounger (noun) - someone who wastes time
- loiterer, lingerer (noun) - someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place