| NOUN | food | loaf, loaf of bread | a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating |
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| food | loaf | a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape | |
| VERB | stative | loaf, bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about | be lazy or idle |
| stative | loaf, loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around | be about |
| Sounds | low'f | |
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| Rhymes | meatloaf | |
| Meaning | A shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating. | |
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| Synonym | loaf of bread | |
| Parts | heel | One of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread |
| Narrower | French loaf | A loaf of French bread |
| meat loaf, meatloaf | A baked loaf of ground meat | |
| Broader | bread, breadstuff, staff of life | Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
| Spanish | barra de pan, barra, pan | |
| Catalan | barra de pa, barra | |
| Meaning | A quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape. | |
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| Narrower | haslet | heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs |
| headcheese | 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 | Any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold | |
| pound cake | Rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour | |
| scrapple | scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying | |
| sugarloaf, sugar loaf, loaf sugar | A large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar | |
| Broader | food, solid food | Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid / liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment |
| Spanish | mollera | |
| Meaning | Be lazy or idle. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about | |
| Broader | idle, laze, slug, stagnate | Be idle |
| Spanish | haraganear | |
| Nouns | loafer | person who does no work |
| Meaning | Be about. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around | |
| Narrower | prowl, lurch | loiter about, with no apparent aim |
| Broader | be | Have the quality of being |
| Spanish | acechar, dar vueltas, demorarse, entretenerse, holgazanear, merodear, perder el tiempo, permanecer, pulular, quedarse, vagar | |
| Catalan | demorar-se, dropejar, entretenir-se, gandulejar, pul·lular, voltar | |
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