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Synonyms of the word 
LOAF → BE - BREAD - BREADSTUFF - BUM - FOOTLE - IDLE - LALLYGAG - LAZE - LINGER - LOITER - LOLL - LOLLYGAG - LOUNGE - LURK - SLUG - STAGNATE - TARRYloaf- n. (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
- n. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
- n. (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use…
- n. A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
- v. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.
- v. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread).
be- v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
- v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
- v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
- v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
- v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
- v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
- v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
- v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
- v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
- v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
- v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
- v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
- v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…
bread- n. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- n. (countable) Any variety of bread.
- n. (slang) Money.
- n. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
- v. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs.
- n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
- v. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.
- v. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.
- n. A piece of embroidery; a braid.
breadstuff- n. Flour, grain (such as wheat or oats), or any cereal, such as would be used in the making of bread.
- n. bread of any sort.
bum- n. The buttocks.
- n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
- n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
- v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
- interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
- n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
- n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
- n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
- n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
- n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
- v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
- adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
- adj. Unfair.
- adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
- adj. Unpleasant.
- v. To depress; to make unhappy.
- n. (dated) A humming noise.
- v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
- n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.
footle- v. To waste time; to trifle.
- v. To talk nonsense.
- n. nonsense; foolishness.
idle- adj. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
- adj. Not being use appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- adj. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
- adj. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- adj. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- adj. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
- v. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- v. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- v. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
lallygag- n. Horseplay, fooling around.
- n. A layabout, one who lallygags.
- v. (See lollygag.) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
- v. (archaic, US) To pet, kiss, or otherwise demonstrate overt affection, generally in public.
laze- n. Laziness.
- n. An instance of lazing.
- v. To be lazy, waste time.
- v. To pass time relaxing.
- n. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.
linger- v. (intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not…
- v. (intransitive) To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die…
- v. (intransitive, often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic…
loiter- v. To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.
loll- v. (intransitive) To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw oneself down; to lie at ease.
- v. (transitive) To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
- v. (intransitive) To let the tongue hang from the mouth in this way.
lollygag- v. (US) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
- n. (US) Silliness, nonsense.
lounge- n. A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
- n. A domestic living room.
- n. An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
- n. A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
- n. The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
- v. To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
lurk- v. To remain concealed in order to ambush.
- v. To remain unobserved.
- v. To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
- v. (Internet) To view an internet forum without posting comments.
- n. The act of lurking.
slug- n. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- n. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
- n. A bullet (projectile).
- n. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- n. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- n. (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of…
- n. (physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared…
- n. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- n. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- n. (television editing) A black screen.
- n. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed…
- n. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- n. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
- n. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- n. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
- n. A ship that sails slowly.
- n. A blow, usually with the fist.
- v. To drink quickly; to gulp.
- v. To down a shot.
- v. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
- v. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation…
- v. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger…
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
- v. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
- v. To make sluggish.
stagnate- v. To cease motion, activity, or progress.
tarry- v. (intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
- v. (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
- v. (intransitive) To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
- v. (intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily; to sojourn.
- v. (transitive) To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.
- n. A sojourn.
- adj. Resembling tar.
- adj. Covered with tar.
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