Loafer

/ˈləʊfə/

Synonyms for "loafer" (121 found)

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6 entries
dawdlerdriving loaferlayaboutpenny loaferslackertassel loafer

Collocations

6 entries
driving loaferleather loaferpenny loaferslip-on loafersuede loafertassel loafer

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

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Translations

17 translations across 14 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • лоуфър noun (footwear)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 懶佬鞋 /懒佬鞋 noun (footwear)

Finnish

1 entries
  • louferi noun (footwear)

French

1 entries
  • mocassin noun (footwear)

Galician

1 entries
  • mocasín noun (footwear)

German

4 entries
  • Loafer noun (footwear)
  • Schlüpfschuh noun (footwear)
  • Slipper noun (footwear)
  • Trotteur noun (footwear)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • pantofel noun (footwear)

Irish

1 entries
  • lófaire noun (footwear)

Italian

1 entries
  • mocassino noun (footwear)

Japanese

1 entries
  • ローファー noun (footwear)

Navajo

1 entries
  • kébiiʼníʼdíʼisí noun (footwear)

Polish

1 entries
  • loafersy noun (footwear)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • sapatilha noun (footwear)

Spanish

1 entries
  • mocasín noun (footwear)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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If someone, because of his love of a forest, walks there half of every day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, chopping down that forest and making the earth bald before its time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Source: tatoeba (10268589)

The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by a small knot of loafers, who craned their necks and strained their eyes in the vain hope of catching some glimpse of the proceedings within.

Source: wiktionary

Along this unequal way, where loafers sat on whittled benches, lounged in doorways, leaned against porch props, Dan Gustin went pegging in his high-heeled boots like a mule in a Mexican chain hobble, holding a straight course for the hotel, past the doors of temptation.

Source: wiktionary

Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.

Source: wiktionary

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