Meaning of LOAFER
| Pronunciation: | | 'lowfur
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- [n] (trademark) a low leather step-in shoe; the top resembles a moccasin but it has a broad flat heel
- [n] person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
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| | Synonyms: | | bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout |
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| | See Also: | | clock watcher, couch potato, dallier, dawdler, daydreamer, dillydallier, drone, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, laggard, lagger, lazybones, lie-abed, loon, lounger, mope, ne'er-do-well, nonworker, shirker, shoe, slacker, slug, slugabed, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trailer, trifler, whittler, woolgatherer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Loaf"er\, n. [G. l["a]ufer a runner, Prov. G. laufer,
lofer, fr. laufen to run. See {Leap}.]
One who loafs; a lazy lounger. --Lowell.
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| | Related Terms: | | Arab, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, bum, bummer, cadger, clock watcher, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, dogie, dolittle, do-nothing, doodler, drone, faineant, gamin, gamine, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, guttersnipe, hobo, homeless waif, idler, laggard, landloper, lazybones, lazzarone, lingerer, loiterer, loller, losel, lotus-eater, lounge lizard, lounger, lubber, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, mope, moper, mudlark, panhandler, piker, potterer, putterer, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rounder, schnorrer, scrounger, shirker, ski bum, slouch, sloucher, slug, slugabed, sluggard, stick-in-the-mud, stiff, stray, street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, time killer, time waster, tramp, trifler, turnpiker, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagrant, waif, waifs and strays, waiter on Providence, wastrel |
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