different between loaner vs loafer
loaner
English
Etymology
loan +? -er
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?lo?n?/
- Homophone: loner
- Rhymes: -??n?(?)
Noun
loaner (plural loaners)
- One who loans; a lender.
- (informal) Something that is given as a loan.
- I am driving a loaner while my car is in the shop.
- 2014, Arlene Sollis, I Came — I Stayed (page 219)
- It took a few days to get the prescription for wheelchair repairs approved before the parts could be ordered. In the meantime, the company I was dealing with gave me a loaner chair until mine was returned to me.
Anagrams
- Lorena, arenol, reloan
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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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