• n. 條，一條面包；塊；游蕩
• vt. 游蕩；游手好閑；虛度光陰
• vi. 游蕩；游手好閑；虛度光陰

來自古英語hlaf,一塊面包，詞源同lady,lord.

loaf

loaf: English has two words loaf. By far the older is ‘portion of bread’ [OE], which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khlaibaz. This also produced German laib and Danish lev ‘loaf’, and was borrowed, originally into Gothic, from an Old Slavic chleb (source of modern Russian and Polish chleb ‘bread, loaf’). Heavily disguised, loaf forms part of both lady and lord (which etymologically mean respectively ‘loafkneader’ and ‘loaf-guardian’), and it also contributed the first syllable to Lammas [OE], literally ‘loaf-mass’.

The verb loaf ‘dawdle, mooch’ [19] seems to have been a back-formation from loafer, which was probably adapted in 19th-century American English from German landl?ufer ‘vagabond’, a compound of land ‘land’ and l?ufer ‘runner’ (to which English leap is related).
=> lady, lord; leap

loaf (n.)

late 13c., from Old English hlaf "portion of bread baked in a mass of definite form," from Proto-Germanic *khlaibuz (cognates: Old Norse hleifr, Swedish lev, Old Frisian hlef, Old High German hleib, German Laib, Gothic hlaifs "bread, loaf"), of uncertain origin, perhaps connected to Old English hlifian "to raise higher, tower," on the notion of the bread rising as it bakes, but it is unclear whether "loaf" or "bread" is the original sense. Finnish leip?, Old Church Slavonic chlebu, Lithuanian klepas probably are Germanic loan words. Meaning "chopped meat shaped like a bread loaf" is attested from 1787.

loaf (v.)

1835, American English, back-formation from loafer (1830). Related: Loafed; loafing.

The term "loafing" is, of course, very vague. Its meaning, like that of its opposite, "work," depends largely on the user. The highly successful quarterback with an E in Greek is a loafer in his professor's eyes, while the idea of the professor's working, in spite of his voluminous researches on Mycenean Table Manners, would excite hoots of derision from the laborer that lays the drains before his study window. [Yale Literary Magazine, May 1908]

1. The proposal could put 3p on a loaf of bread.

這項提議會使每個面包的成本增加3便士。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The cost of a loaf of bread has increased five-fold.

一條面包的價錢增長了4倍。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Pick up a quart of milk or a loaf of bread.

拿1夸脫牛奶或一條面包。

來自柯林斯例句

4. a loaf of bread

一條面包

來自《權威詞典》

5. a loaf of sliced bread

一條切片面包

來自《權威詞典》