loafer

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n. 游手好闲的人, 懒人, 懒汉鞋 [法] 无业游民, 不务正业者, 二流子

发音

UK /ˈləʊfə/
其它
US /ˈloʊfɚ/

词形变化

loafers 复数 loafered loafering loafers 三单 loafers loafering 现在分词 loafered 过去式 loafered 过去分词

别名

lobo lobo wolf lofer lover loper

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An idle person.

  2. 2.

    A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.

  3. 1.

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

    计算机 工程 数学
  4. 1.

    A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

    美国 方言
v.
  1. 1.

    To loaf around; to be idle.

    方言 不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

bum layabout do-nothing idler

上位词 2

shoe nonworker

下位词 10

trailer poke drone slug good-for-nothing loon mope slacker lazybones couch potato

相关短语

penny loafer

词源

Perhaps short for landloafer, possibly a partial translation of German Landläufer (compare dialectal German loofen (“to run”), and English landlouper); or more likely connected to Middle English love, loove, loffinge, looffinge (“a remnant, the rest, that which remains or lingers”), from Old English lāf (“remainder, residue, what is left”) (more at lave), which is akin to Scots lave (“the rest, remainder”), Old English lǣfan (“to let remain, leave behind”) (more at leave).

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