loafer

loafernoun詞源 1/ˈləʊfə/

• 1

  An idle person.

  • The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by a small knot of loafers, who craned their necks and strained their eyes in the vain hope of catching some glimpse of the proceedings within.
  • Along this unequal way, where loafers sat on whittled benches, lounged in doorways, leaned against porch props, Dan Gustin went pegging in his high-heeled boots like a mule in a Mexican chain hobble, holding a straight course for the hotel, past the doors of temptation.
• 2

  A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.

  • Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.

loaferverb詞源 1/ˈləʊfə/

• 1

  dialectalTo loaf around; to be idle.

loafernoun詞源 2/ˈləʊfə/

• 1

  cellular-automatacomputingengineeringA particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life that moves at a speed of c/7, and the smallest such example.

loafernoun詞源 3/ˈləʊfə/

• 1

  dialectalA wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

  • The great menace to livestock, other than the continual battle with cold, [...] was the gray wolf. [...] The big loafers came in from everywhere.
  • Cowboys had killed “loafers” at five hundred yards away with rifles. [...] Lucille was not like most cowhands and she sets out to capture the "loafer" with her lariat.