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Synonyms for loafing

Grammar : Adj
Spell : lohf
Phonetic Transcription : loÊŠf

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Définition of loafing

Origin :
  • late 13c., from Old English hlaf "portion of bread baked in a mass of definite form," from Proto-Germanic *khlaibuz (cf. 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.
  • adj doing nothing useful
  • adj ostensibly employed, but wasting time
Example sentences :
  • He don't like him loafing around here: he sent him home last Sunday.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Even if they make you a street-scavenger, remember that is better than loafing.
  • Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
  • Instead of the loafing chairs we still had rusty old sabres then.
  • Extract from : « Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) » by Frank Wedekind
  • Damascus is more inclined to loafing or to dancing than to reading.
  • Extract from : « Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land » by Henry Van Dyke
  • What's all that loafing about galleries, I ask ye, but the worst of all idling?
  • Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
  • They spent their time in loafing, drinking, gambling and plotting "revolutions."
  • Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
  • It was Sunday afternoon, and all the miners were loafing about with nothing to do.
  • Extract from : « The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade » by Edward Lord Gleichen
  • He had the most novel and ingenious ideas on the subject of loafing.
  • Extract from : « Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York » by Lemuel Ely Quigg
  • Even if she wasn't too big a steamer to be loafing there, I knew her of old.
  • Extract from : « Sonnie-Boy's People » by James B. Connolly
  • A fellow had been loafing around Jenkintown for three or four weeks.
  • Extract from : « The Expressman and the Detective » by Allan Pinkerton

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