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Definition of Loaf

Loaf

  1. Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
  2. To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
  3. To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

Loaf Quotations

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.
Charlie Sheen

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
Omar Khayyam

I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.
Phil Collins
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Loaf Translations

loaf in Afrikaans is brood
loaf in Dutch is mik, brood
loaf in French is pain, miche
loaf in German is Laib
loaf in Italian is pagnotta
loaf in Spanish is pan
loaf in Swedish is flanera, limpa

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