loafer
noun/ˈləʊfə(r)/
/ˈləʊfər/
- a person who wastes their time rather than workingTopics Personal qualitiesc2
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- a flat leather shoe that you can put on your foot without fastening itTopics Clothes and Fashionc2
Word Originmid 19th cent.: perhaps from German Landläufer ‘tramp’, from Land ‘land’ + laufen (dialect lofen) ‘to run’.
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