loafer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a lazy idler; a low slip-on shoe

   He spent the summer as a loafer, doing nothing of note.

From loaf ('to idle, lounge'), of uncertain origin, perhaps from German Landläufer ('vagabond'), + the agentive suffix -er. The shoe sense (a slip-on, 'leisure' shoe) arose in the 1930s.

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