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Definition of Loafing

1. Noun. Having no employment.

Definition of Loafing

1. Verb. (present participle of loaf) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Loafing

1. loaf [v] - See also: loaf

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loafing

Literary usage of Loafing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vacation Rambles by Thomas Hughes (1895)
"loafing as she should be taken" is likely, I fear, to become a lost art, ... A country without good loafing-places is no longer a country for a self- ..."

2. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"loafing AND LABORING. ings, the feeling of personal efficiency, and he thus not only gets a living but gets life. The result of his labor may not be the ..."

3. Types from City Streets by Hutchins Hapgood (1910)
"Ill AN AMERICAN BOHEMIAN ABROAD loafing AT WAIKIKI—loafing ON A PAINTED OCEAN ... loafing AT WAIKIKI I HAD a gentle case of nervous prostration and spent ..."

4. Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper by James Fenimore Cooper (1922)
"loafing about. Met Capt. Breese, and went to look at some new steamers with him, the United States and ... Still loafing. This town is getting to be large. ..."

5. Outlines of Child Study: A Text Book for Parent-teacher Associations by William Arch McKeever (1915)
"If the chief loafing place is to be banished, then a desirable social center of ... The cheap loafing place is the center of much political corruption also, ..."

6. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"loafing IN THE WOODS. March 8.—I write this down in the country again, ... Have been loafing here deep among the trees, shafts of tall pines, oak, hickory, ..."

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