单词 | loafer |
释义 | loafern. 1. One who spends his time in idleness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > an idler or loafer lurdanc1330 player1340 moochera1425 loon?c1450 lounger?a1513 idler1534 rest man1542 holiday-woman1548 baty bummill1568 bummill baty1568 friar-fly?1577 idol1579 lingerer1579 loll1582 idleby1589 shit-rags1598 blaitie bum1602 idle1635 Lollard1635 loiterer1684 saunterer1688 scobberlotchera1697 bumble1786 quisby1789 waffler1805 shoat1808 loafer1830 bummer1855 dead beat1863 bum1864 scowbanker1864 schnorrer1875 scowbank1881 ikey1906 layabout1932 lie-about1937 spine-basher1946 limer1964 1830 Mechanic's Press (Utica, N.Y.) 10 July 274/1 Nor are they topers at taverns, or benchers at groceries, or loafers who ‘chase misfortune o'er the towpath’. 1835 Knickerbocker 6 63 The late Ben Smith, Loafer. I present an outline sketch of one of that species of the genus homo..which Custom has christened with the expressive appellation of Loafer! 1839 Knickerbocker Mag. 13 39 It was something like going to sea passenger, idler, loafer, what you please. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast vii. 17 The men appeared to be the laziest people upon the face of the earth; and indeed..there are no people to whom the newly invented Yankee word of ‘loafer’ is more applicable than to the Spanish Americans. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. vi. 151 When we stop to change, some two or three half-drunken loafers will come loitering out with their hands in their pockets. 1852 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 30 Sept. (1997) V. 363 Even the insects in my path are not loafers but have their special errands. 1873 C. G. Leland Eng. Gipsies & their Lang. vi. 89 When the term first began to be popular in 1834 or 1835, I can distinctly remember that it meant to pilfer. Such, at least, is my earliest recollection, and of hearing school boys ask one another in jest, of their acquisitions or gifts, ‘Where did you loaf that from?’ A petty pilferer was a loafer, but in a very short time all of the tribe of loungers in the sun, and the disreputable pickers up of unconsidered trifles,..were called loafers. 1893 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey I. ii Older boys knew that he was no loafer: and when he felt unwell he could always get off ‘fagging cricket’. 2. [compare Spanish lobo wolf.] A timber wolf, Canis lupus nubilus, found in the south-western part of North America; = lobo n. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > varieties of lobo1859 timber-wolf1860 loafer?1877 Japanese wolf1878 red wolf1942 ?1877 H. F. McDanield & N. A. Taylor Coming Empire v. v. 314 The Mexicans call these big wolves ‘lobos’ and the Texans call them ‘loafers’ which is a corruption of the Mexican word. 1908 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 July 16/3 One of the loafers had run in, leaping out of the black like a streak of gray light. 1948 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 July 80/3 With loafers,..mountain lions or bears, he was absolutely ruthless. 1974 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 June 13/2 The lobo wolf derived its name from a word in the Blackfoot Indian language meaning ‘buffalo wolf’ and sounding like ‘lobo’, the Spanish word for wolf. They were also known as the buffalo grey or loafer wolf as they followed migrations of bison. 3. a. Usually plural. The proprietary name of a shoe for wearing on informal occasions. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > informal or casual shoe moccasin1885 moc1913 Top-sider1937 loafer1939 casual1941 stroller1948 Weejuns1957 Wallabee1968 1939 Trade Marks Jrnl. 19 Apr. 520/2 Loafer. Boots, shoes, slippers, sandals, leggings and gaiters. Fortnum and Mason Ltd.—London. 1948 M. Sturges-Jones In Wedlock Wake 11 Pullover sweaters, bobby socks, and leather loafers. 1963 T. Pynchon V. vi. 136 Profane kicked off his shoes—old black loafers of Geronimo's—and concentrated on dancing in his socks. 1971 ‘V. X. Scott’ Surrogate Wife 161 I saw him standing there in lean slacks..and suède loafers. 1972 Last Whole Earth Catal. (Portola Inst.) 406/2 The big thing for guys is jeans or slacks, button-down shirts or T-shirts and brown loafers without socks. b. A type of jacket for informal wear. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [adjective] > jacket sack-back1892 blouson1904 peplumed1931 Eisenhower1945 loafer1959 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > (suitable) for specific purpose cork-jacket1762 tea-jacket1887 stroller1901 sports jacket1912 bed-jacket1914 smoking1922 hacking jacket1935 safari jacket1938 lumber jacket1939 judogi1944 loafer1959 1959 Trade Marks Jrnl. 19 Aug. 688/2 Loafers... Jackets. Chas. MacIntosh & Company Limited,..London. 1969 P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 125 My clip-on tie and my two-tone ‘loafer’ jacket. Derivatives ˈloaferdom n. the state of being a loafer.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1894 Forum (U.S.) May 276 The steps from enforced idleness down into loaferdom..and crime are short and near together. ˈloaferess n. a female loafer.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1885 Advance (Chicago) 16 July 458 Loafers and loaferesses. ˈloafering n. the practice or ‘occupation’ of a loafer; also attributive. ΚΠ 1837 J. D. Whitney in Life (1909) 19 There is another thing which is a sad enemy to time, namely ‘loafering’, i.e. visiting one another's rooms without any ostensible purpose, to pass away time. 1842 B. M. Norman Yucatan (1843) iv. 88 The Casa-real..was the loafering-place of the Indians. ˈloaferish adj. somewhat of a loafer; pertaining to or characteristic of a loafer. ΚΠ 1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xix A scene composed of the four pleasant ruffians in the loaferish postures which they have learned as facchini waiting for jobs. 1893 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 262/2 A mere loaferish breach of the peace. ˈloaferism n. the practice of loafing. ΚΠ 1836 Knickerbocker Mag. 8 407 There is a moral sublimity in..his calling, but it is not the sublimity of loaferism. 1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner 17 It will long remain..the headquarters of Creole loaferism. 1889 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Dec. 362 Loaferism and blackguardism. ˈloafery n. (a) = loaferism n.; (b) a place where people loaf. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > place for lounging or loafing lounge1775 loafery1861 1861 Macmillan's Mag. 4 76/1 Encouraging ‘loafery’ by the instances we are going to adduce of Idleness and Scampishness succeeding where Philosophy has failed. 1898 Daily Tel. 10 Feb. 7/3 The Whitechapel Guardians have been considering a proposal to call their workhouse by another name... Perhaps ‘House of Repose’ or ‘The Loaferies’ would be appropriate. 1903 Liberty Rev. July 7 A new trap is set for it—the free loafery at the corner. ˈloafership n. the state of being a loafer.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1889 Field 28 Sept. 448/1 The dangers which ‘loafership’ entails upon the future of any juvenile. 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