loaf

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ləʊf/    美 /loʊf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A block of bread after baking.
    — Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
  2. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
    — sugar-loaf
  3. Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head. Cockney,abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,slang
    — use one's loaf
  4. A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
  5. A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.
    — It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.
  6. A catloaf. informal,slang
动词 v.
  1. To headbutt Cockney,slang
  2. To do nothing, to be idle. intransitive
    — loaf about, loaf around

词形变化

loaves plural loafs present,singular,third-person loafing participle,present loafed participle,past loafed past loafs present,singular,third-person loafing participle,present loafed participle,past loafed past

词汇关系

衍生词
barracouta loaf catloaf catloafed confinement loaf cottage loaf disciplinary loaf Dutch loaf farmhouse loaf farthing loaf flesh loaf fleshloaf foodloaf French loaf frosted ribbon loaf granary loaf half a loaf is better than no bread half a loaf is better than no loaf half a loaf is better than none liverloaf loaf bread loaflet loaflike loaf of bread loaf pan loaf sugar malt loaf meatless loaf meatloaf meat loaf nut loaf olive loaf pan-loaf pimento loaf pinch a loaf plain loaf Pullman loaf ribbon loaf sandwich loaf sugar loaf sugar-loaf tank loaf tea loaf temse loaf Vienna loaf wave loaf

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz
Proto-West Germanic *hlaib
Old English hlāf
Middle English lof
English loaf
* 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”), 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.
* (brain or head): Rhyming slang, ellipsis of loaf of bread.
词源 2
Probably a back-formation from loafer.
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