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Definition loaf

Etymology 1

From Middle English lof, laf, from Old English hl?f (“loaf, cake, bread, food, sacramental bread”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“bread, loaf”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English hlifian (“to stand out prominently, tower up”). Cognate with Scots laif (“loaf”), German Laib (“loaf”), Swedish lev (“loaf”), Russian ???? (xleb, “bread, loaf”).

Noun

loaf (plural loaves)

1. (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
2. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).
4. A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.

Etymology 2

Probably a back-formation from loafer.

Verb

loaf (third-person singular simple present loafs, present participle loafing, simple past and past participle loafed)

1. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)

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