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loaf

Pronunciation: /ləʊf/

The English word “loaf” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A block of bread after baking.
  2. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
  3. A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
  4. A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.
  5. A catloaf.

verb

  1. To headbutt
  2. To do nothing, to be idle.

Etymology

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”). Cognates Cognate with German Laib (“loaf”), Danish and Swedish lev (“loaf”), Faroese leivur (“an oblong bun”), Icelandic hleifur (“loaf”),…

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