loaf¹ /lōf/

1. A portion of bread baked in one mass, esp of standard weight
2. A moulded portion of food, esp bread or meat
3. A conical mass of sugar
4. Bread (formerly, still Scot)
5. Any lump (obsolete)
6. A cabbage-head
7. The head, or brains (for loaf of bread; Cockney rhyming sl)

(also loave /lōv/) to form a head, as in a cabbage

loafˈ-bread noun (Scot)

Ordinary plain bread

loafˈ-cake noun (US)

A plain cake like a loaf in form

loaf sugar noun

Refined sugar moulded into a large cone

half loaf

A loaf of half the standard weight

loaves and fishes

Temporal benefits, the main chance (from Bible, John 6.26)

loaf² /lōf/

To loiter or stand idly about, pass time idly

loafˈer noun

1. Someone who loafs
2. A casual shoe, esp one resembling a moccasin

loafˈerish adjective

loafˈing noun and adjective

• tholing
• tholobate
• tholobates
• tholoi
• tholos
• tholus
• Thomism
• Thomist
• Thomistic
• Thomistical
• Thompson gun
• Thompson submachine-gun
• Thompson submachine-guns
• -thon
• thon
• thonder
• thong
• thonged
• thongs
• Thor
• thorac-
• thoracal
• thoracenteses
• thoracentesis
• thoraces