0 a type of leather shoe without a fastening, that a person's foot slides into
1 someone who avoids doing any work:
an idle loafer
2 a type of shoe with stitches around the top and without shoelaces (= strings used to tie shoes)
He may try in the poem's second stanza to pose as a loafer "at my ease," but in fact he is working constantly to fetch his readers to him.
If ever the democracy of this country deal with loafers, they will deal with them at both ends of the social scale.
They can judge between members who are pure loafers and those who deserve a little better treatment.
Why, then, are the very large proportion who are not loafers to be penalised for the very small proportion who may happen to be so?
We cannot have in this country loafers and idlers, and we shall not want them.
There is no room for idlers and loafers, be they rich or poor, nor should there be any able-bodied person compulsorily unemployed.
As matters stand now, we know it is only the willing horse who goes, while the loafers and shirkers stay at home.
They were not the loafers of the town.
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