loafing
SayLOHF-ingUS/ˈloʊfɪŋ/UK/ˈləʊfɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of loaf. Use it after is, was or keep, or as a noun for the action.
He spent the whole weekend loafing on the couch.
Stop loafing around and help me clean the kitchen.
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- 2
- 3The way a cat sits with its legs tucked under its body, so it looks like a loaf of bread.
My cat has made loafing her hobby: she tucks her paws under and sits like a bread roll.
The kitten's loafing on my warm laptop, with no legs showing, stopped me from working.
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loafing is a form of loaf
loaf, verb: To spend time doing nothing at all. Full entry
- Spelling
- loaf → loafing: add -ing
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