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loafer
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l??f?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?lo?f?/
- Rhymes: -??f?(r)
Etymology 1
Perhaps short for landloafer, possibly a partial translation of German Landläufer (compare dialectal German loofen (“to run”), and English landlouper); or connected to Middle English love, loove, loffinge, looffinge (“a remnant, the rest, that which remains or lingers”), from Old English l?f (“remainder, residue, what is left”) (more at lave), which is akin to Scots lave (“the rest, remainder”), Old English l?fan (“to leave behind”) (more at leave).
Noun
loafer (plural loafers)
- An idle person.
- A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
Synonyms
- (idle person): bum, bumpkin, footler, idler, lout, yob, yobbo
- (footwear): penny loafer
- See also Thesaurus:idler
Translations
Etymology 2
From American Spanish lobo (“wolf”) (/?lo?o/), reinterpreted as or conflated with loafer (“idler”); compare the alternative forms which reflect other re-interpretations and conflations. Doublet of lupus and wolf.
Alternative forms
- lobo, lobo wolf
- lofer (wolf), lover (wolf), loper (wolf)
Noun
loafer (plural loafers)
- (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.
Usage notes
- Often used in compound with "wolf": "loafer wolf".
Further reading
- Robert N. Smead, Vocabulario Vaquero/Cowboy Talk: A Dictionary of Spanish Terms from the American West
Anagrams
- Florea, florae, floræ
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beachcomber
English
Alternative forms
- beach-comber
Etymology
From beach +? comber.
Noun
beachcomber (plural beachcombers)
- (nautical) A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 46
- The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need be at to enjoy it. They are easy of approach and affable in conversation.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 46
- Any loafer around a waterfront.
- A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.
- A long rolling wave of the sea.
Translations
Further reading
- “beachcomber”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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