[
UK
/lˈəʊf/
]
[ US /ˈɫoʊf/ ]
[ US /ˈɫoʊf/ ]
VERB
-
be about
The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square
Who is this man that is hanging around the department? -
be lazy or idle
Her son is just bumming around all day
NOUN
-
a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape
sugar loaf
meat loaf
a loaf of cheese - a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
How To Use loaf In A Sentence
- A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
- So, he got out his bread knife and trimmed the quarter-loaf down to a couple of slices of dry toast.
- You can think that you ate a whole loaf and the entire thing is still there.
- If you don't know what a carcake is which you probably don't, because as far as I know I invented the term, it's a great big loaf of snow that sits atop a motor vehicle after a snowstorm which the driver was either unable or unwilling to clear. The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Cakes and Cheese
- Edusha brewed some tea and found half a loaf of bread, some butter and cheese.
- You can't really go wrong with a loaf of wholemeal organic bread, but as much as I love the UK I find it difficult to get remarkable fresh bread.
- Whatever may be said henceforward of these "golden lads" of ours, "shirker" and "loafer" they can never he called again. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend
- I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.
- (I found this remarkable in a medical man: between trouser hem and refulgent loafer, a gleam of bronzed ankle.) Retching With the Stars
- 'LBJ made it very clear a half a loaf is better than no loaf at all,' Clyburn said Wednesday. Math check (Jack Bog's Blog)