loaf
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
loaf1
▶noun (pl. loaves) a quantity of bread that is shaped and baked in one piece.
– phrases
use one's loaf Brit. informal use one's common sense. [prob. from loaf of bread, rhyming sl. for ‘head’.]
use one's loaf Brit. informal use one's common sense. [prob. from loaf of bread, rhyming sl. for ‘head’.]
– origin OE hlāf, of Gmc origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
loaf2
▶verb idle one's time away in aimless loitering.
'loaf' also found in these Oxford entries:
baguette
- baker
- bannock
- bloomer
- bummer
- challah
- cob
- cottage loaf
- crumb
- crust
- damper
- French bread
- French stick
- heel
- johnnycake
- lady
- Lammas
- lig
- loaves
- lord
- manchet
- meat loaf
- milk loaf
- nut loaf
- pastille
- quartern loaf
- roll
- stollen
- torte
- unsliced
- zwieback
