different between gaffer vs zaffer
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)
- (film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
- 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)
- (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 […]
- 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:
- (Britain) A foreman.
- A sailor.
- (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
- to make a gaffe; to mess up; botch up
- to gaffer tape
Conjugation
Further reading
- “gaffer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Verb
gaffer
- (Jersey) to grasp
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??af?r/
Verb
gaffer
- Soft mutation of caffer.
Mutation
gaffer From the web:
- what gaffer means
- what's gaffer tape
- what's gaffers tape used for
- what's gaffer in spanish
- what's gaffer in french
- gaffer what does it mean
- what does gaffer mean in british slang
- what a gaffer on movie sets
zaffer
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æf?(r)
Noun
zaffer (countable and uncountable, plural zaffers)
- Alternative form of zaffre
Anagrams
- affzer, zaffre
zaffer From the web:
- what zafferano means
- zafferano what does it mean
- what is zafferano sauce
- what does zafferano mean in english
- what is zafferano
- what is zafar in english
- what does zafar mean
- what is zaffer
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- gaffer vs zaffer
- manganese vs zaffer
- iron vs zaffer
- silica vs zaffer
- oxide vs zaffer
- laffed vs baffed
- laffed vs larfed
- gaffles vs gaffled
- gaffled vs waffled
- gaffled vs haffled
- caffled vs gaffled
- maffled vs gaffled
- faffled vs gaffled
- gaffled vs raffled
- boffed vs baffed
- baffed vs biffed
- baffled vs baffed
- caffre vs zaffre
- caffre vs kaffir
- gaffles vs waffles