Loaf

Definition: Loaf

Loaf

Noun

1. A shaped mass of baked bread.

Verb

1. Be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day".

2. Be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "loaf" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Loaf

Convexity

Tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf; (sharpness); bow; mamelon; molar; belly, corporation, pot belly, gut; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange.

Inactivity

Verb: be inactive; Adjective: do nothing; move slowly; let the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile.

Sharpness

Crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille; spire, pyramid, steeple.

Size

Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows".

Crosswords: Loaf

You know, I'm not picky as long as it ain't meat loaf. That stuff gives me gas, something awful (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

I will not be threatened by a walking meat loaf! (American Werewolf in London, An; writing credit: John Landis)

Meat Loaf. (Phoenix Nights; writing credit: Neil Fitzmaurice; Peter Kay)

No, it's your loaf of bread (Enough; writing credit: Nicholas Kazan)

The Stolen Loaf (1913)

Loaf (1991)

I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth) (performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Paradise By The Dashboard Light (performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through (performing artist: Meat Loaf)

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Green Eyed Lady (performing artist: Sugar Loaf)

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Books

• Bread of Three Rivers : The Story of a French Loaf (reference)

• Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill (reference)

• The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf (reference)

• The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Bread Loaf Anthology) (reference)

• The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook: The Definitive Guide to Delicious Home Baking Using a Bread Machine-How to Prepare and Bake the Perfect Loaf (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• All-Clad 4-1/2-by-8-1/2-Inch Loaf Pan (reference)

• Calphalon Commercial Bakeware Mini Loaf Pans, Set of 4 (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A typed manuscript lies open on a purple tablecloth. Various types of grain, either loose or in a bowl and a ladle, are on top. There is also a basket with a round loaf of brown bread cut in half. See also AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

(11) color slides show different types of bread. (4) two pieces of toasted white bread with a pat of melted butter, (1) two pieces of toasted white bread, (2) single slice of bread spread completely with butter, (1) french bread loaf with two pieces sliced off the end, (1) loaf of garlic bread, (2) single slice of garlic bread. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

[The staff of life- a loaf of bread. Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The other night Charlie brought home a quart of milk, a loaf of bread and a case of AIDS. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Architectural drawing for an automobile objective for Gordon Strong, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Montgomery County, Maryland. Perspective rendering. Credit: Library of Congress.

If you exercise you will suffer less from the heat than if you loaf. Credit: Library of Congress.

That million dollar a day loaf that is never eaten / Gray. Credit: Library of Congress.

Startingly white against the fog and shadow-darkened background of Sugar Loaf and Corcovado mountains and the dim shoreline of Rio, three Martin Mariners are snapped from a sister ship as they wing in from sea / Official U.S. Navy photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Margaret Rudkin, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding loaf of sliced bread. Credit: Library of Congress.

Winona, Sugar Loaf Rocks from the lake. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It would be a strange catalogue of things, that industry provided and made use of, about every loaf of bread, before it came to our use, if we could trace them; iron, wood, leather, bark, timber, stone, bricks, coals, lime, cloth, dying drugs, pitch, tar, masts, ropes, and all the materials made use of in the ship, that brought any of the commodities made use of by any of the workmen, to any part of the work; all which it would be almost impossible, at least too long, to reckon up. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The arm seized a loaf of bread and took it out.

She pushed the waxpapered loaf across the counter

I have water from the spring, and a loaf of brown bread on the shelf

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Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "loaf": bread Loaf ♦ Brick loaf ♦ Cob loaf ♦ cottage loaf ♦ crumb of the loaf ♦ english loaf ♦ fish loaf ♦ french loaf ♦ fruit loaf ♦ half a loaf is better than no bread ♦ Indian loaf ♦ loaf about ♦ loaf around ♦ loaf away ♦ loaf of bread ♦ loaf pan ♦ loaf sugar ♦ long loaf ♦ malt loaf ♦ meat loaf ♦ plaited loaf ♦ quartern loaf ♦ round loaf ♦ salmon loaf ♦ sandwich loaf ♦ sugar loaf ♦ Temse loaf ♦ the crumb of the loaf ♦ tin loaf ♦ wave loaf. Additional references.

Beginning with "loaf": loaf-sized, loaf-sugar, loaf-tin.

Ending with "loaf": cottage-loaf, half-a-loaf, half-loaf, malt-loaf, sugar-loaf.

Containing "loaf": sugar-loaf sea.

Afrikaans

brood (bread). (various references)

Albanian

rri kot (fribble, idle, lounge, lounge about), panine (roll), ngarrit, ngarris, masë sheqeri, kokë (block, bulb, catchword, conk, dome, head, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, poll, pommel), copë (chunk, excerpt, fraction, fragment, fritter, hunk, knob, lump, mammock, morsel, nub, partition, piece, rag, scrap, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, sliver, snip, snippet, splint, tatter), bukë (batch, bread, nurture, rooty), çyrek. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتلة مخروطية من السكر, ‏تسكع (gad about, hang about, hang around, idling, linger, loiter, lounge, meander, mess around, mooch, mosey, muck about, perambulate, perambulation, potter, putter, range, roam, slop, slouch, traipse, tramp), ‏رغيف (pone). (various references)

Bavarian

broud (bread). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скитам се без работа, самун (cob), руло (roll), цял хляб, франзела (french bread, long loaf), тиква (knob, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, pumpkin, squash), шляя се (dally, dawdle, fool about, fool around, gallivant, hang about, hang around, idle, lollop, meander, mess about, mess around, mooch, moon about, mosey, saunter, screw around, swan around, vagabond), конична буца захар, глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, conk, crumpet, head, knob, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, poll, sconce, topknot), акъл (head, nous, savvy, think tank), пита (bannock, cake, damper, disk). (various references)

Chinese 

大面包 (Loaves), 一塊麵 . (various references)

Czech

potloukat se (knock, slouch around, vagabond), bochník. (various references)

Danish

brød (bread). (various references)

Dutch

mik (bread), brood (bread). (various references)

Esperanto

pano (bread). (various references)

Faeroese

breyð (bread). (various references)

Farsi 

کله قند, قرص نان , ولگردی کردن (Hull, Lout, Mooch, Tramp, Vagabond), وقت رابیهوده گذراندن , تکه (Bit, Dab, Fragment, Glimmer, Gob, Goblet, Item, Lot, Lump, Morsel, Nub, Pane, Patch, Portion, Scrap, Shiver, Shred, Slab, Slice, Smidgen, Whit). (various references)

Finnish

leipä (bread). (various references)

French

pain. (various references)

Frisian

brea (bread), bôle (bread). (various references)

German

laib (loaf of bread), Brot (bread, bred, loaf of bread, sandwich). (various references)

Greek 

καρβέλι, κοπροσκυλιάζω (slouch), βώλοσ (bolus, lump, sod), χασομερώ (dally, dawdle, diddle, dillydally, fiddle, lag, laze, loiter), χαζεύω (dawdle, hang about, loiter, lounge, Maunder, moon), φραντζόλα (roll of bread), φρατζόλα, άρτοσ (bread, breadstuff). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחם (bread, grain, provision, wheat), ל�"תבטל (bum around, fall through, idle, lallygag, laze, loiter, loll, putter, slack), לבטל זמן (idle, lallygag, waste time), ככר לחם. (various references)

Hungarian

cipó (cobs), vekni. (various references)

Icelandic

brauð (bread). (various references)

Indonesian

roti (bread). (various references)

Irish

arÚn (bread). (various references)

Italian

pane (bread, cake, food, living), pagnotta (bread, Tommy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ぶどう�' (aimlessly, be idle, dangle heavily, idly, Japanese beech tree, lazily, loiter, soft and flabby, stroll idly, sway to and fro, swing, to dangle, to hang around, to linger, to stroll about, to swing, wine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶらぶら (aimlessly, be idle, dangle heavily, idly, lazily, loiter, stroll idly, sway to and fro, swing). (various references)

Korean 

덩어리 (Chunk, Loaves, lump, Nugget). (various references)

Malay

roti (bread). (various references)

Manx

bwilleen. (various references)

Norwegian

brød (bread). (various references)

Papiamen

pan (bread). (various references)

Pig Latin

oaflay.(various references)

Polish

chleb (bread). (various references)

Portuguese

pão (bread, carpet-knight, loaf of bread, roll, tommy). (various references)

Romanian

umbla hai-hui (knock about, lop about), trândãvi (dawdle, drone, laze, lie about, lounge, slack), pîine (bread), pâine (bread, food, job, Tommy), jimblã, hoinãri (dally, gad, linger, loiter, loll about, meander, ramble, roam, rove, saunter, scour about, stand about, stroll, wander), franzelã, cocean (stalk), cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, knob, lid, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, sense, skull, top, understanding), cãpãţânã de zahãr (loaf sugar), ţeastã (skull). (various references)

Russian 

слоняться (dangle around, gallivant, hover about, lop about, lounge, mooch, mosey, muck about, putter about), каравай, буханка, болтаться буханка, бездельничать (bum, dawdle, drone, fiddle about, fribble, idle, lallygag, laze, molder, moulder, sit back, twiddle, while the time away), бездельничанье. (various references)

Scottish

aran (bread). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lenčariti (idle, kick one's heels, muck about, slug), vekna, skitati (ramble, roam, straggle, traipse, truck, wander), provesti u neradu, glava (head, headpiece, knob, noddle, noggin, noodle, pate, scone), dangubiti (beat time, frig, kick one's heels, laze, waste time). (various references)

Spanish

pan (bread, pan, wheat). (various references)

Sranan

brede (bread). (various references)

Swahili

mkate (bread). (various references)

Swedish

limpa (bap), bröd (bread, loaves). (various references)

Tagalog

tinápay (bread). (various references)

Thai

เ�"ินทอ�"น่อง (lounge, saunter), อาหารที่เป็นก้อน, หัว (konk, loaf of bread, nob), ขนมปังแถวหนึ่ง, ศรีษะหรือสมอง. (various references)

Turkish

somun (bolt nut, nut), kaytarmak (dodge, duck, evade, loaf about, loaf around, scrimshank, shirk, shuffle, skip, skive, skive off, skulk, sneak out of, swing the lead), ekmek somunu, ekmek (bread, bread and butter, broadcast, crop, inseminate, plant, set, set out, sow, sprinkle, tame), beyin (brain, brains, cerebral, cerebrum, encephalic, gray matter, grey matter, intelligence, mastermind, sensorium), başıboş dolaşmak (divagate, loaf about, loaf around, roam about, rove, rove about, stray, wander about), aylaklık etmek (arse around, bum, bum around, dawdle, fiddle, fiddle about, fiddle around, footle, frig, loaf about, loaf around, not to work), akıl (advice, bean, brain, chump, comprehension, consciousness, gray matter, grey matter, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, memory, mental, mind, nous, prudence, psyche, reason, sapience, senses, strength of mind, wisdom, wit). (various references)

Turkmen 

ykmak (linger, loaf around). (various references)

Ukrainian

головка цукру, ледарювати (dawdle, fribble, frivol, idle, laze, mess about, mess around, mooch, poke, potter about, potter around, twiddle one's thumbs), буханка, паляниця. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lười nhác (loaves, shiftlessness), sự đi chơi rong (loaves). (various references)

Welsh

ystelcian (loiter, skulk), torth, bara (bread). (various references)

Yucatec

waah (bread), pan (bread), pam (bread). (various references)

Zulu

isinkwa (bread). (various references)

pane, panem, panes, panesque, panibus, panis, panum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "loaf": loafed, loafer, loafers, loafing, loafs. (additional references)

Words ending with "loaf": meatloaf, sugarloaf. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Loaf" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bloaf, boaf, Kloof, laf, laff, laif, lao, laof, laor, laow, larf, lauf, Llaf, loafa, loafe, loafy, loak, loar, Loat, loau, loave, loaw, loax, loay, locf, lof, Lofa, loff, lofu, loha, lohar, Lohf, Loja, loof, lopf, louf, lowa, loxa, lua, luf, lufa, moaf, moraff, Olac, olaf, olaff, olau, toaf, uloa. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: foal.

-1 letter: oaf.

-2 letters: al, fa, la, lo, of.

+1 letter: afoul, aloft, aloof, float, flora, flota, foals, focal, folia, loafs, loofa, offal.

+2 letters: afloat, falcon, fallow, flacon, flagon, flavor, floats, floaty, florae, floral, floras, flotas, foaled, foetal, folate, foliar, fontal, formal, foveal, layoff, loafed, loafer, loofah, loofas, offals, safrol.

+3 letters: airflow, airfoil, alforja, aliform, aloofly, batfowl, beefalo, bifocal, boatful, boffola, buffalo, coalify, cowflap, falcons, falloff, fallout, fallows, fanfold, femoral, flacons, flagons, flattop, flavone, flavors, flavory, flavour, floated, floatel, floater, flokati, florals, flotage, flotsam, flowage, flyboat, foaling, foamily, focally, folacin, folates, foliage, foliate, folkway, formals, formula, foulard, foveola, foxtail, frontal, hayloft, layoffs, leadoff, loafers, loafing, loofahs, moanful, offload, outfall, peafowl, plafond, playoff, refloat, safrole, safrols, seafowl, wolfram.