Meaning & use
Loafing
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Spending time idly or lazily instead of working.
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The manager caught two employees loafing in the break room.
We spent the whole weekend loafing around the cabin.
A note on using this word
"Loafing" comes from "loafer," a 19th-century American term for an idle person, possibly linked to the German 'Landläufer,' meaning a vagabond.
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