Loaf

Noun

 * 1) (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
 * 2) Any solid block of food, such as meat.
 * 3)  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.
 * 1) A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.

Synonyms

 * bonce, noddle, nut

Verb

 * 1)  To do nothing, to be idle.
 * loaf about, loaf around.
 * 1) (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)

Synonyms

 * idle, laze, lounge

Adverbs for Loaf
contentedly; idly; improvidently; dreamily; disgracefully; drunkenly; corruptly; enjoy ably; congenially; wastefully.

Thesaurus
Communion, Eucharist, Holy Communion, Host, Last Supper, Sacrament Sunday, altar bread, batch, bean, block, brains, bread, bread and wine, brick, bulk, bum, bum around, cake, chump, chunk, clod, clump, consecrated bread, consecrated elements, consubstantiation, cube, do nothing, elements, fritter away, gob, goldbrick, goof off, hang around, head, hunk, idle, idle away, impanation, intinction, lallygag, laze, lazy, lie around, loiter, loiter about, loll, loll around, lollop around, lollygag, lounge, lounge around, lump, mass, mooch around, moon, moon around, noddle, noggin, noodle, nugget, pat, quantity, real presence, sense, sit around, skive, slouch, slouch around, stand around, subpanation, take it easy, the Holy Sacrament, the Sacrament, transubstantiation, vegetate, wad, wafer, waste

Etymology 1
From lof:, laf:, from  hlaf:, from, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to hlifan:. Cognate with laif:,  Laib:,  lev:.

Etymology 2
Probably a

Noun

 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: καρβέλι (karveli), φρατζόλα (fratzola)
 * Hungarian: vekni
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Irish: bairín, bollóg, builín
 * Italian:, , ,


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: kukulis
 * Macedonian: векна, сомун
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Polish: bochenek
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: vekna, veknica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: p’ȍkúna
 * Welsh: torth


 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:


 * Spanish: mollera


 * Italian:

Derived terms

 * meatloaf

Verb

 * Czech:
 * French: paresser
 * German: nichts tun, herumlungern, (coll.) rumhängen


 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: денгуби,
 * Spanish: holgazanear

Anagrams

 * AFOL
 * foal
 * Olaf