Definition of Loaf

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Definition of Loaf

Loaf

Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.

To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.

To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

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Loaf Quotations

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

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

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

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
Merle Haggard

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!
Ryan Phillippe

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.
Steve Albini

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.
Ben Nicholson

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.
John Goodman

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
Edward Fitzgerald

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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