Loaf vs Lope - What's the difference?
loaf | lope |
(also loaf of bread ) A block of bread after baking.
* , chapter=8
, 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)
(obsolete) To jump, leap.
*, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxv:
*:And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
*Middleton
*:He that lopes on the ropes.
To travel an easy pace with long strides.
:He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
As nouns the difference between loaf and lope
is that loaf is (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking while lope is a horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.As verbs the difference between loaf and lope
is that loaf is to do nothing, to be idle while lope is to jump, leap.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 .
