Foal vs Loaf - What's the difference?
foal | loaf |
(equestrian) To give birth; to bear offspring.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
(also loaf of bread ) A block of bread after baking.
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, title= Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
(Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf ).
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A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
To do nothing, to be idle.
(Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread)
As nouns the difference between foal and loaf
is that foal is a young (male or female) horse, especially just after birth or less than a year old while loaf is (also loaf of bread ) a block of bread after baking.As verbs the difference between foal and loaf
is that foal is (equestrian) to give birth; to bear offspring while loaf is to do nothing, to be idle.foal
English
Verb
- "Well," said John, "I don't believe there is a better pair of horses in the country, and right grieved I am to part with them, but they are not alike; the black one is the most perfect temper I ever knew; I suppose he has never known a hard word or a blow since he was foaled , and all his pleasure seems to be to do what you wish...
See also
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l)loaf
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lof, laf, from (etyl) .Noun
(loaves)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* bonce, noddle, nutDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * half a loaf is better than none * (l)References
* (soap) Miller, J.L. "Customers believe in downstate Soap Fairy", , B10, January 10, 2006.Etymology 2
Probably aVerb
(en verb)- loaf''' about'', '''''loaf around .
