different between senses vs loaf
senses
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?ns?z/
Noun
senses
- plural of sense
Verb
senses
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sense
Anagrams
- SNESes, nesses
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loaf
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)
- (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
- Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
- sugar-loaf
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf).
- 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)
- (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.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)
Synonyms
- idle, laze, lounge
Translations
Anagrams
- AFOL, Olaf, foal
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