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gaffa

English

Noun

gaffa (plural gaffas)

  1. (Britain, colloquial) Gaffer tape.
    • 2012, Katherine Angel, Unmastered, Penguin 2014, p. 250:
      A body – a corpse – my own, I think – wrapped in tape, suspended in gaffa.

French

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: gaffas, gaffât

Verb

gaffa

  1. third-person singular past historic of gaffer

Italian

Etymology

From Middle French gaffe, from Old Occitan gaf (hook), derivative of gafar (to seize), either from Gothic ????????????- (gaf-) derived from ???????????????????? (giban, to give) or from ???????????????????? (gafah, clasp), from ????????- (ga-) (intensifier) + ???????????????????? (fahan, to catch).

Noun

gaffa f (plural gaffe)

  1. (nautical) gaff (hooked pole)

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jaffa

English

Etymology

From Jaffa, an ancient port city in Israel from which the oranges were exported. The sense "impotent male" is a reference to being "seedless"; see seed.The cricketing sense, of a 'sweet ball' (from the bowler's perspective), is a metaphor further reinforced in Australian English where Jaffa is also a trademark for a popular lolly that is red and round.

Pronunciation

Noun

jaffa (plural jaffas)

  1. A type of sweet orange, normally seedless.
  2. (slang) An impotent or infertile male.
  3. (cricket) A ball that is very difficult for the batsman to hit because it moves erratically either through the air or off the pitch

Translations

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