breadstuff vs loaf

breadstuff

noun
  • Bread or bread-like baked goods of any sort. 

  • Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour/meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain). 

loaf

noun
  • A block of bread after baking. 

  • Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar. 

  • A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut. 

  • Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use one's loaf). 

verb
  • To headbutt (from loaf of bread) 

  • To be in catloaf position (for cats or other animals) 

  • To do nothing, to be idle. 

How often have the words breadstuff and loaf occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )