goffer

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɒfə/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French gaufrer (to stamp with a patterned tool), from gaufre (honeycomb).

Verb

goffer (third-person singular simple present goffers, present participle goffering, simple past and past participle goffered)

  1. To make wavy; to crimp.
    • 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
      On the back of a chair beside the bed sits perched above the discarded chip hat something apparently precious and taken from the opened bundle on the floor: a flat white cambric hat, its fronts and sides goffered into little flutes.
Translations

Noun

goffer (plural goffers)

  1. (UK, naval slang) soft drink; non-alcoholic drink

Anagrams

Polish

goffer

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɔf.fɛr/
  • Rhymes: -ɔffɛr
  • Syllabification: gof‧fer

Noun

goffer m animal

  1. eastern pocket gopher (any pocket gopher of the genus Geomys)

Declension

Further reading

  • goffer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • goffery in PWN's encyclopedia
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