LOAF

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Traducere în limba română

loaf¹ substantiv

1. pâine, jimblă, franzelă;

(rel.) loaf and fishes bunuri pământeşti;

(prov.) half a loaf is better than no bread cine nu poate avea mult e bucuros şi de puţin.

2. (şi loaf of sugar) căpăţână de zahăr.

3. cocean.

4. (sl.) căpăţână, ţeastă;

use your loaf bate-ţi puţintel capul.

loaf² I. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a trândăvi, a(-şi) pierde vremea.

2. a hoinări, a umbla haihui.

loaf² I. verb B. tranzitiv

to loaf away the time a petrece timpul hoinărind.

loaf² II. substantiv

trândăveală, lenevie.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

To them, this was the one feature of the day, though it was good to loaf around, after the fish was eaten, for an hour or so with the other dogs, of which there were fivescore and odd.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

As she was very hungry, she picked a little piece of each loaf and drank a very little wine out of each glass; and after that she thought she would lie down and rest.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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