Loaf
Loaf verb - To spend time doing nothing.
Usage example: the kind of sultry August afternoon that makes you just want to loaf
Work
Work verb - To devote serious and sustained effort.
Usage example: the organization has worked for years to raise people's awareness of human rights issues
Common collocations
| time | loaf time | work time |
Both words in one sentence
- The recidivist whom the hero meets at the Conciergerie seems to have been a precursor to Jean Valjean, what with the stolen loaf of bread and the way no one will give him work.
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Toilet Humor: In "Take Your Clone To Work Day", C2 turns into a Lethal Chef when making a bread loaf, eats the entire said bread loaf, and ends up having to run to the bathroom.
Source: Western Animation / Carl Squared -
His work includes forcing a man to have sex with a massive loaf of rye bread and putting the brain of a lesbian into the head of a man who works for the telephone company.
Source: They Called Me Mad!
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