1. A shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
   "He bought a fresh loaf of bread from the bakery";
   - loaf of bread
    
2. A quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape
   "a loaf of cheese"; "meat loaf"; "sugar loaf"
    
3. [Brit, informal] That which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
   "his loaf wandered";
   - mind, head, brain
    
4. [Brit, informal] Common sense
   "Use your loaf before making such a decision";
   - nous [Brit, informal]

1. Waste time by being idle or engaging in aimless activity
   "Her son is just loafing around all day";
   - bum [informal], bum around [informal], bum about [informal], arse around [Brit, Cdn, informal], arse about [Brit, Cdn, informal], waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around [informal], lounge about, slob [Brit, informal]
    
2. Spend time in one place doing little or wasting time
   "The high school students like to loaf in the Central Square";
   - loiter, lounge, footle [informal], lollygag [N. Amer, informal], lallygag [N. Amer, informal], hang around, mess about [informal], tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around, dillydally [informal], dilly-dally [informal], mooch [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: loafs, loaves, loafed, loafing

Type of: bread, breadstuff, cognition, common sense, food, good sense, grub [informal], gumption [informal], horse sense [informal], idle, kai [NZ, informal], khana [Asia], laze, mother wit, noesis [technical], nosh [Brit, informal], provender [archaic], sense, slug [informal], solid food, staff of life, wait

Encyclopedia: Loaf