loafer

Etymology 1
Perhaps short for, possibly a partial translation of German (compare dialectal German , and English ); or more likely connected to , , , , from  (more at ), which is akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (more at ).

Noun

 * 1) An idle person.
 * 2) A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
 * 1) A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.

Synonyms

 * (idle person): bum, bumpkin, footler, idler, lout, yob, yobbo
 * (footwear): penny loafer
 * See also Thesaurus:idler

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, gallof
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: ,,, galloufeiro, guillote, arlote, pantrigueiro, vacaceiro, palanquin, ,
 * German:, , Bummler, Bummelant,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: liúdramán, liairne, scraiste
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: cessātor
 * Macedonian: бе́зделник, безде́лница
 * Maori: kaihau, parakūkā, kaitahaumu, inukorokoro, kaikora, kaitahaumu, karioi
 * Occitan: estaire,
 * Polish:, arcyleń
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Russian:, , , , , , ,
 * Spanish:, , , comodón
 * Swahili:
 * Welsh: diogyn, stelciwr


 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 懶佬鞋
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: mocasín
 * German: Loafer,, Schlüpfschuh, Trotteur
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: lófaire
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ローファー
 * Navajo: kébiiʼníʼdíʼisí
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To loaf around; to be idle.

Etymology 2
From American, reinterpreted as or conflated with ; compare the alternative forms which reflect other re-interpretations and conflations. .

Alternative forms

 * (wolf), (wolf),  (wolf)
 * (wolf), (wolf),  (wolf)

Noun

 * 1)  A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

Usage notes

 * Often used in compound with "wolf": "loafer wolf".

Etymology
From