loaf – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to loaf about
Participle: loafed about
Gerund: loafing about

Cognates

See the 2 cognates of loaf

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	loaf about
we	Let's loaf about
you	loaf about

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to be idle

arse about, arse around, bludge, bum around, cabbage, clown around, dawdle, dick about, dick around, dilly-dally, drumble, faff, faff about, faff around, fanny about, fanny around, fart about, fart around, fiddle about, fiddle around, fool about, fool around, footle, goof around, goof off, hang about, hang around, hang out, horse around, idle, jerk off, lallygag, laze, laze about, laze around, linger, loaf about, loaf around, loiter, lollygag, mess around, mill about, mill around, muck about, muck around, tarry, waste time, while

walk

loiter, saunter, stroll, amble

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. O.E. hlaf "bread, loaf," from P.Gmc. *khlaibuz (cf. O.N. hleifr, Swed. lev, Ger. Laib, Goth. hlaifs), of uncertain origin, perhaps connected to O.E. 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. O.C.S. chlebu, Finn. leipä, Lith. klepas probably are Gmc. loan words. Meaning "chopped meat shaped like a bread loaf" is attested from 1787.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.?
4. Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *hlaib
6. Old English hlāf
7. Middle English lof
8. English loaf
9. * From Middle English laf, lof, loof, from Old English hlāf (“bread; loaf”), 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”).
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with German Laib (“loaf”), Danish and Swedish lev (“loaf”), Faroese leivur (“an oblong bun”), Icelandic hleifur (“loaf”), Norwegian Nynorsk leiv (“loaf”), Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐍃 (hlaibs), 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 (hlaifs, “bread”) (whence Proto-Slavic *xlěbъ (“bread”) (see there for further descendants)), Estonian leib (“black bread”), Finnish leipä (“bread; loaf”); also Latvian klaips (“loaf”), Lithuanian kliẽpas (“loaf”). Doublet of chleb and khleb.
12. * (brain or head): Rhyming slang, ellipsis of loaf of bread. See: Old English 'hlifian'.

Verbs referencing "loaf"

Swedish luffa, Norwegian, nynorsk loffe.

Sample Sentences