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gaffer

English

Etymology 1

From gaff (hook) +? -er. The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?æf?/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æf?/
  • Rhymes: -æf?(?)

Noun

gaffer (plural gaffers)

  1. (film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
  2. A glassblower.
Related terms
  • gaffer tape
Translations

Etymology 2

Likely a contraction of godfather, but with the vowels influenced by grandfather. Compare French compère, German Gevatter.

Noun

gaffer (plural gaffers)

  1. (colloquial) An old man.
    • 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:
      If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail
      Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow,
      And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale []
  2. (Britain) A foreman.
  3. A sailor.
  4. (in Maritime regions) The baby in the house.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:old man
Related terms
  • gammer
Translations

References

  • “gaffer”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1989

Anagrams

  • Graeff

French

Etymology

gaffe +? -er

Verb

gaffer

  1. to make a gaffe; to mess up; botch up
  2. to gaffer tape

Conjugation

Further reading

  • “gaffer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Verb

gaffer

  1. (Jersey) to grasp

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??af?r/

Verb

gaffer

  1. Soft mutation of caffer.

Mutation

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gauffer

English

Etymology

From French gaufrer (to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs), from gaufre (honeycomb, waffle); of German origin. See waffle, wafer, and compare goffer, gopher (an animal).

Verb

gauffer (third-person singular simple present gauffers, present participle gauffering, simple past and past participle gauffered)

  1. (transitive) To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace.
  2. (transitive) In fine bookbinding, to decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron.

Anagrams

  • gauffre, ruffage

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