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gaffa
English
Noun
gaffa (plural gaffas)
- (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.
- 2012, Katherine Angel, Unmastered, Penguin 2014, p. 250:
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: gaffas, gaffât
Verb
gaffa
- 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)
- (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)
- A type of sweet orange, normally seedless.
- (slang) An impotent or infertile male.
- (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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