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glassblower
English
Etymology
glass +? blower
Noun
glassblower (plural glassblowers)
- A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
Synonyms
- gaffer, glassmith
Translations
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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)
- (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
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Pronunciation
Verb
gaffer
- (Jersey) to grasp
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??af?r/
Verb
gaffer
- Soft mutation of caffer.
Mutation
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