Loaf vs Goaf - What's the difference?
loaf | goaf |
(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)
(mining) That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings.
As nouns the difference between loaf and goaf
is that loaf is (also loaf of bread ) a block of bread after baking while goaf is (mining) that part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings.As a verb loaf
is to do nothing, to be idle.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 .