loaf

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I - noun

1. a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating (Freq. 3)
• Syn:
loaf of bread
• Hypernyms:
bread, breadstuff, staff of life
• Hyponyms:
French loaf, meat loaf, meatloaf
• Part Meronyms:
heel
2. a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape
- meat loaf
- sugar loaf
- a loaf of cheese
• Hypernyms:
food, solid food
• Hyponyms:
sugarloaf, sugar loaf, loaf sugar, pound cake, haslet,
headcheese, lunch meat, luncheon meat, scrapple

II - verb

1. be lazy or idle (Freq. 1)
- Her son is just bumming around all day
• Syn:
bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about,
arse about, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll,
loll around, lounge about
• Derivationally related forms:
loafer
• Hypernyms:
idle, laze, slug, stagnate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
2. 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,
lallygag, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk,
mill about, mill around
• Derivationally related forms:
lingerer (for: linger), lounger (for: lounge), loiterer (for: loiter)
• Hypernyms:
be
• Hyponyms:
prowl, lurch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP