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单词 loaf
释义 loaf
loaf1
 /lohf/,  n.  ,  pl.   loaves /lohvz/.
  1. a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
  2. a shaped or molded mass of food, as of sugar or chopped meat: a veal loaf.
  3.  Brit.  
   a. the rounded head of a cabbage, lettuce, etc.
   b.  Slang   (older use). head or brains: Use your loaf.
 [bef. 950; ME lo(o)f, OE hlaf loaf, bread; c. G Laib, ON hleifr, Goth hlaifs]
loaf2
 /lohf/,  v.i.  
  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.
  v.t.  
  3. to pass idly (usually fol. by away): to loaf one's life away.
 [1825-35, Amer.; back formation from LOAFER]
 Syn. 2. loll, idle.
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