loaves
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noun
plural of loaf1.
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before 950; Middle English lo(o)f, Old English hlāf loaf, bread; cognate with German Laib, Old Norse hleifr, Gothic hlaifs
before 950; Middle English lo(o)f, Old English hlāf loaf, bread; cognate with German Laib, Old Norse hleifr, Gothic hlaifs
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loaf1 (ləʊf) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl loaves | |
| 1. | a shaped mass of baked bread |
| 2. | any shaped or moulded mass of food, such as cooked meat |
| 3. | slang the head; sense: use your loaf! |
| [Old English hlāf; related to Old High German hleib bread, Old Norse hleifr, Latin libum cake] | |
| loaf2 (ləʊf) | |
| —vb (foll by away) | |
| 1. | (intr) to loiter or lounge around in an idle way |
| 2. | to spend (time) idly: he loafed away his life |
| [C19: perhaps back formation from | |
| loaves (ləʊvz) | |
| —n | |
| the plural of loaf | |
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Word Origin & History
loaf
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.
loaf
1835, Amer.Eng., back-formation from loafer (1830), which often is regarded as a variant of land loper (1795), a partial loan-translation of Ger. Landläufer "vagabond," from Land "land" + Läufer "runner," from laufen "to run" (see leap). But OED finds this "not very probable."
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