Crossword clues for loaf
loaf
- "Half a ___ is better than none"
- Unit of bread sold at a bakery
- Bread portion
- Block of bread
- Wonder unit
- Where to find a couple of heels
- Unsliced hunk of bread
- Take one's ease
- Shaped meat dish
- Shape of some baking pans
- Shape of a pound cake
- Panera Bread purchase
- Loll around
- Head — bread
- Do zilch
- Bread shape
- Bread quantity
- Bread machine output
- Baguette, e.g
- Act the goldbrick
- Act the bum
- "Web in Front" Archers of ___
- "Bat Out of Hell" rocker Meat ___
- Word with meat or sugar
- Wonder buy
- Unsliced bread unit
- Supermarket bread buy
- Sugar ___ Mountain
- Sourdough unit
- Sourdough purchase
- Shaped mass of bread
- Scrapple unit
- Rye unit
- Pumpernickel buy
- Prolong the coffee break
- Pound-cake shape
- Pound cake shape, often
- Pan type
- Oblong edible
- Not do much of anything
- More than relax
- Meat ___ (rock singer)
- Meat ___ ("Paradise by the Dashboard Light" singer)
- Meat ___
- Mass of bread
- Lounge idly
- Just watch TV
- Just hang out
- Have no industry
- Hang around lazily
- Half of this is better than none, they say
- Half a ___
- Go on a staycation
- Get nothing done
- Eschew hard work
- Enjoy a staycation
- Don't lift a finger
- Don't do much of anything
- Don't do anything
- Do some chilling
- Do no work
- Challah unit
- Bum about
- Breadmaker's output
- Bread slicer insert
- Bread slicer input
- Bread section
- Bread pan shape
- Bread or meat unit
- Bread machine's output
- Bread knife target
- Bread block
- Bread amount
- Bread — head
- Boulangerie purchase
- Big hunk of bread
- Be unproductive
- Banana bread shape
- Bakery sale
- Baguette or cob
- Archers of ___
- Style of bread
- Baked savoury dish
- Bakery product
- Vegetate
- Lounge around
- Idle away time
- It has two heels
- Goof off
- Goldbrick
- Kill time
- Bread in the oven
- Bakery item with heels
- Veg out
- Just watch TV, say
- Fail to work
- Kick back
- Take it easy
- Lollygag
- Baker's unit
- Dog it
- Hang out
- Be idle
- Sit around
- Hang around idly
- Eschew exertion
- Avoid work
- Bread unit
- Don't work too hard
- A shaped mass of baked bread
- Lallygag
- Do nothing all day
- Dawdle
- What 1 Across stole
- Noggin, to Brits
- Work in a bakery and goof off?
- What goldbricks do
- Be a chair-warmer
- Play the goldbricker
- One of Omar's three wishes
- What slugabeds do
- Lounge about
- Sugar or meat
- Mass of baked bread
- Quantity of bread
- Capital spot to idle
- One coming out of bakery, looking on as fire starts
- Liberal lout is idle
- Left fool to find lounge
- Piece of bread
- Pass time idly
- Bread - head
- Brains in bum
- Idle youngster on farm having bounds reset?
- Idle l-lout
- Idle fool on line
- Idle fellow found under a lot of cargo
- Bakery buy
- Bakery offering
- Waste time
- Slack off
- Shirk work
- Bakery purchase
- Laze about
- Bread buy
- Rye buy
- Be a slacker
- Be lazy
- Laze around
- Type of cake
- Bread package
- Hang about
- Bread purchase
- Bakery unit
- Plenty of bread?
- Just sit around
- Be a goldbrick
- Measure of bread
- Head (slang)
- Half of it is better than none
- Fritter away time
- Baker's offering
- Pumpernickel purchase
- Package of bread
- Act the couch potato
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loaf \Loaf\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loafed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Loafing.] [G. laufen to run, Prov. G. loofen. See Leap.]
To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. ``
Loafing vagabonds.''
--W. Black.
Loaf \Loaf\, v. t. To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.
Loaf \Loaf\, n.; pl. Loaves. [OE. lof, laf, AS. hl[=a]f; akin
to G. laib, OHG. hleip, Icel. hleifr, Goth. hlaifs, Russ.
khlieb', Lith. kl["e]pas. Cf. Lady, Lammas, Lord.]
Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly
shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
--Bacon.
Loaf sugar, refined sugar that has been formed into a conical loaf in a mold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Old English hlaf "portion of bread baked in a mass of definite form," from Proto-Germanic *khlaibuz (cognates: Old Norse hleifr, Swedish lev, Old Frisian hlef, Old High German hleib, German Laib, Gothic hlaifs "bread, loaf"), of uncertain origin, perhaps connected to Old English hlifian "to raise higher, tower," on the notion of the bread rising as it bakes, but it is unclear whether "loaf" or "bread" is the original sense. Finnish leipä, Old Church Slavonic chlebu, Lithuanian klepas probably are Germanic loan words. Meaning "chopped meat shaped like a bread loaf" is attested from 1787.
1835, American English, back-formation from loafer (1830). Related: Loafed; loafing.\n\nThe term "loafing" is, of course, very vague. Its meaning, like that of its opposite, "work," depends largely on the user. The highly successful quarterback with an E in Greek is a loafer in his professor's eyes, while the idea of the professor's working, in spite of his voluminous researches on Mycenean Table Manners, would excite hoots of derision from the laborer that lays the drains before his study window.
[Yale Literary Magazine, May 1908]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (''also'' '''loaf of bread''') A block of bread after bake. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To do nothing, to be idle. 2 (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)
WordNet
n. a shaped mass of baked bread [syn: loaf of bread]
[also: loaves (pl)]
v. be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about]
be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around]
[also: loaves (pl)]
Wikipedia
A loaf is a shape, usually rounded or oblong, mass of food. It may refer to a whole article of bread, or meatloaf. Technically, any unit of bread is called a "loaf", no matter what its shape, and the loaf can therefore vary in the ratio of length to width, and in its roundness. However, it is common to bake bread in a rectangular bread pan, also called a loaf pan, because different kinds of bread dough have different levels of viscosity, meaning that some doughs will tend to collapse and spread out more than others during the cooking process. Doughs with a thicker viscosity can be hand-molded into the desired loaf shape, and cooked without using any kind of walled pan. However, using a bread pan with sides higher than the height of the uncooked dough maintains the shape of doughs with a thinner viscosity, and allows multiple loaves to be cooked with different dough recipes while maintaining approximately the same shape.
The same principle applies to non-bread products such as meatloaf that are cooked so as to retain their shape during the cooking process. In determining the size of the loaf, the cook or baker must take into consideration the need for cooking heat to penetrate the loaf evenly during the cooking process, so that no parts are overcooked or undercooked. Many kinds of mass-produced bread products are distinctly squared, with well-defined corners on the bottom of the loaf. This is in part because it is easier to consistently cook identical loaves of bread in a rectangular form than in a more curved form, and in part because rectangular loaves can be packed for shipping more efficiently.
Loaf is the first live album release by the jam band moe. Recorded live at The Wetlands Preserve in New York City, New York on November 24 and 25 1995. 2,000 copies were released. It is out of print.
Loaf is a British company, which operates as a high street retailer. Charlie Marshall founded the retail brand, which was formerly known as The Sleep Room. Their showrooms are mainly focused around the London area.
It is currently one of the fastest growing retail companies in the United Kingdom. In 2013, it listed on the Sunday Times Fast Track 100, and has also received investment from the Monsoon & Accessorize founder, Peter Simon.
Usage examples of "loaf".
Our great Washington found that out, and the British officer that beat Bonaparte, the bread they gave him turned sour afore he got half through the loaf.
I think that he reports every day to his handler how many people are in the camp, based on the number of loaves he delivers here.
Then he would have dragged her body along the frozen ground on the Bekins blanket, arranging the corpse in the loafing shed where the two horses were.
And after Sunny moved aside three chunks of cold cheese, a large can of water chestnuts, and an eggplant as big as herself, she finally found a small jar of boysenberry jam, and a loaf of bread she could use to make toast, although it was so cold it felt more like a log than a breakfast ingredient.
They lower the professor, imbedded in his donkey-shaped pizza loaf, to street level in the freight elevator, joined by two bleary-eyed old ladies who squat in a corner to pee, and at the bottom they roll him out into the Sotoportego del Capello, the dimly lit alleyway behind the palazzo.
His nose led him to a panetteria where stevedores were already buying hot ciabatta, before going on to a stall where a butcher was selling liver and tripe ragout from a steaming pot, at a copper a dip of the loaf.
But there was no sliced bread in Cush, only brown bread and soda bread that her grandmother made, and loaves of white bread with a hard crust which they bought in Blackwater.
It seemed to Myron a little strange that his two intimates in his boyhood town should not have been his own family, nor Herbert Lambkin, nor any of the lively ruffians with whom he had once loafed at the livery-stable, but two familiar strangers whom, as the baby Effie May and the aloof Ted Dingle, he had seen without knowing them.
For the ragged-trousered man, with practically buttonless blue shirt and greasy e-stained torn coat held together by one string-suspended cloth button, unshaven face carrying beard a half-inch long, and cloth cap on one side of shaggy, thinning half-greyed head, was scraping away, with the broken blade of a dullish looking barley knife, the rounded nubbin of what had once been the end of a loaf of bread.
If he liges a class of vine, it iss begause his loaf ingludes efen hiss enemy, as Shakespeare galled it.
Wherfore espying a corner where lay loaves of bread for all the house I got me thither and filled my hungry guts therewith.
Loafing once beside the river, while he thought his heart would break, There he saw a big goanna fighting with a tiger-snake, In and out they rolled and wriggled, bit each other, heart and soul, Till the valiant old goanna swallowed his opponent whole.
During this picnic Don Quixote gets involved in a quarrel with a passing goatherd, whom he hits in the face with a loaf of bread.
He had tinned meats, side by side with writing materials, jars of cigars standing on the counter with baskets of fresh eggs from the local farms, slabs of sticky brown gurr cake and unwrapped loaves of bread.
It consisted of a vertical hyperboloid, like half a sugar loaf some ten feet high, which sprang out from the wall.