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

• nerve net
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• nerver
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• nervers
• nerves
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• nervier
• nerviest
• nervily
• nervine
• nervines
• nerviness
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• nerving
• nervous
• nervous breakdown
• nervous breakdowns
• nervous impulse
• nervously
• nervousness
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• nervous system
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• nervous wreck