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)
- 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.
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Polish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɔf.fɛr/
- Rhymes: -ɔffɛr
- Syllabification: gof‧fer
Declension
Declension of goffer
singular | plural | |
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nominative | goffer | goffery |
genitive | goffera | gofferów |
dative | gofferowi | gofferom |
accusative | goffera | goffery |
instrumental | gofferem | gofferami |
locative | gofferze | gofferach |
vocative | gofferze | goffery |
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