loffe

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔf.fe/
• Rhymes: -ɔffe
• Hyphenation: lòf‧fe

loffe f

1. plural of loffa

From English loaf.

loffe (present tense loffar, past tense loffa, past participle loffa, passive infinitive loffast, present participle loffande, imperative loffe/loff)

1. (intransitive) to loaf, do nothing in particular
   • before 1790, variant lyrics of "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe", printed in Infant Institutes (1790) and quoted by Ralph N. James, "Nursery Rhymes", Notes and Queries, 5th s., no. 3 (5 June 1875), p. 441:

     Then out went th’ old woman to bespeak ’em a coffin,
     And when she came back, she found ’em all a-loffeing.

• loffe rundt

Borrowed from English luff.

loffe (present tense loffar, past tense loffa, past participle loffa, passive infinitive loffast, present participle loffande, imperative loffe/loff)

1. (nautical, ambitransitive) to luff

• “loffe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.