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Definition of Loafer
1. Noun. Person who does no work. "A lazy bum"
Generic synonyms: Nonworker
Specialized synonyms: Clock Watcher, Couch Potato, Dallier, Dilly-dallier, Dillydallier, Lounger, Mope, Dawdler, Drone, Laggard, Lagger, Poke, Trailer, Daydreamer, Woolgatherer, Goldbrick, Good-for-naught, Good-for-nothing, Goof-off, Ne'er-do-well, No-account, Lazybones, Lie-abed, Slugabed, Loon, Shirker, Slacker, Slug, Sluggard, Spiv, Sunbather, Trifler, Whittler
Derivative terms: Bum, Do-nothing, Idle, Loaf
2. Noun. A low leather step-in shoe; the top resembles a moccasin but it has a broad flat heel.
Definition of Loafer
1. n. One who loafs; a lazy lounger.
Definition of Loafer
1. Noun. An idle person. ¹
2. Noun. (trademark) A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Loafer
1. one that loafs [n -S] - See also: loafs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loafer
Literary usage of Loafer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"The time has come for transferring the habitual vagrant and the loafer ...
Take the urban loafer. While honest men are working we give him the free run of ..."
2. The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews by Cornelius Mathews (1863)
"Ben. was a metropolitan loafer, and a phenomenon. ... Benjamin Smith, then, was
a tall loafer, surmounted with a well-woven and well-entangled mat of hair, ..."
3. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
""The college loafer must be dealt with apart. Oxford accepted the loafer years
ago and separates her standards into 'pass' and 'honor' men. ..."
4. Discipline and the Derelict: Being a Series of Essays on Some of Those who by Thomas Arkle Clark (1921)
"It takes a man of some energy to be a real devil, so that the loafer at first
seldom gets into anything that is difficult, or dangerous, or not nice; ..."
5. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"THE loafer AND THE SQUIRE BY PORTE CRAYON The squire himself was the type of a
class found only among the rural population of our Southern States—a class, ..."
6. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"(i) An idler : from choice or necessity : a loafer or a man seeking work.
PUBLIC-LEDGER, suis. phr. (common).—A prostitute : see TART. ..."
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