different between loaf vs loff

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lo?f/
• Rhymes: -??f

Etymology 1

From Middle English lof, laf, from Old English hl?f (“loaf, cake, bread, food, sacramental bread”), 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”). Cognate with Scots laif (“loaf”), German Laib (“loaf”), Swedish lev (“loaf”), Russian ???? (xleb, “bread, loaf”).

Noun

loaf (plural loaves)

2. (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
3. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.

   • sugar-loaf

4. (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).
5. A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.

Synonyms

• (head, all slang): bonce, noddle, nut

Derived terms

Translations

References

• (soap) Miller, J.L. "Customers believe in downstate Soap Fairy", The News Journal, B10, January 10, 2006.

Etymology 2

Probably a back-formation from loafer.

Verb

loaf (third-person singular simple present loafs, present participle loafing, simple past and past participle loafed)

1. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.

   loaf about, loaf around.

   • 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]

     They don’t (often) kill other animals, they probably form monogamous pairs, and we know they share parental care of chicks, and loaf and bathe in large, congenial groups.

2. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)

Synonyms

• idle, laze, lounge

Translations

Anagrams

• AFOL, Olaf, foal

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English lof, from Old English lof (“praise, glory, repute”). More at lofe.

Noun

loff (plural loffs)

1. Alternative form of lofe

Etymology 2

From Middle English loven, from Old English lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”). More at lofe, love (Etymology 2).

Verb

loff (third-person singular simple present loffs, present participle loffing, simple past and past participle loffed)

1. Alternative form of lofe

Anagrams

• FFLO

Middle English

Noun

loff

1. Alternative form of lof (“loaf”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English loaf, from Old English hl?f, from Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz. Doublet of leiv.

Noun

loff m (definite singular loffen, indefinite plural loffar, definite plural loffane)

1. a (loaf of) white bread

References

• “loff” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.