21 February 2014

loafing

[lohf-ing]

verb (used without object)

1. to idle away time: He figured the mall was as good a place as any for loafing.
2. to lounge or saunter lazily and idly: We loafed for hours along the water’s edge.
verb (used with object)
3. to pass idly (usually followed by away ): to loaf one’s life away.

Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; back formation from loafer

Related forms
un·loaf·ing, adjective

Synonyms
2. loll, idle.

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Today’s aphorism

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

– Anais Nin

On this day

21 February 1903 – birthday of Anais Nin, French-Cuban author. Died 14 January 1977.