English noun: loafer |
1. | loafer (person) person who does no work |
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| Samples | A lazy bum.
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| Synonyms | bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout |
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| Broader (hypernym) | nonworker |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | clock watcher, couch potato, dallier, dawdler, daydreamer, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, drone, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, laggard, lagger, lazybones, lie-abed, loon, lounger, mope, ne'er-do-well, no-account, poke, shirker, slacker, slug, slugabed, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trailer, trifler, whittler, woolgatherer |
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2. | Loafer (artifact) a low leather step-in shoe; the top resembles a moccasin but it has a broad flat heel |
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| Broader (hypernym) | shoe |
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| Domain usage | trademark |
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