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Loafing

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loaf

2  [lohf]
Use Loafing in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to idle away time: He figured the mall was as good a place as any for loafing.
2. to lounge or saunter lazily and idly: We loafed for hours along the water's edge.
–verb (used with object)
3. to pass idly (usually fol. by away): to loaf one's life away.
Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; back formation from loafer

Synonyms:
2. loll, idle.
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loaf 2   (lōf)   
intr.v.   loafed, loaf·ing, loafs
To pass time at leisure; idle.

[Probably back-formation from loafer.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

loaf  (n.)
O.E. hlaf "bread, loaf," from P.Gmc. *khlaibuz (cf. O.N. hleifr, Swed. lev, Ger. Laib, Goth. hlaifs), of uncertain origin, perhaps connected to O.E. hlifian "to raise higher, tower," on the notion of the bread rising as it bakes, but it is unclear whether "loaf" or "bread" is the original sense. O.C.S. chlebu, Finn. leipä, Lith. klepas probably are Gmc. loan words. Meaning "chopped meat shaped like a bread loaf" is attested from 1787.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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