loaf

Meanings

Noun

• (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
• Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
• Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).
• A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.

Verb

• To do nothing, to be idle.
• (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)

Related

Similar words

• bonce, noddle, nut
• idle, laze, lounge

Origin

• From Middle English lof, laf, from Old English hlāf ("bread, loaf of bread"), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaib, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz ("bread, loaf"), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English hlifian ("to stand out prominently, tower up"). Cognate with Scots laif ("loaf"), German Laib ("loaf"), Swedish lev ("loaf"), Russian хлеб ("bread, loaf").
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