how to pronounce loafer

/ˈləʊ.fəɹ/

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loafer is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of loafer in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… got a real loafer a fishing line like …”

meanings of loafer

noun:

An idle person.
A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

loafer frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word loafer occurs in english on average 0.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics loafer can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that loafer can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;