rafo. (colloquial).—Aimless lounging. Fr. la loupe.
1866. W. D. HOWELLS, Venetian Life, iii. At night men crowd the close little caffé … and beguile the time with solemn LOAFING, and the perusal of dingy little journals.
Adj. (colloquial).—Lounging.
1856. T. HUGHES, Tom Brown’s School-days, pt. I. ch. ii. Then follows the greasy cap lined with fur of a half-gipsy, poaching, LOAFING fellow, who travels the Vale not for much good, I fancy.
