different between roffle vs coffle

English

Etymology

From ROFL, Internet abbreviation for "rolling on the floor laughing".

Verb

roffle (third-person singular simple present roffles, present participle roffling, simple past and past participle roffled)

1. (Internet slang) To laugh uproariously; to be greatly amused.
   • 2002, "Tim Byron", i dedicate this to the sheepsticks. (on newsgroup alt.music.radiohead)

     I roffled at this.

   • 2004, "Witchy", monday's show (on newsgroup uk.media.radio.radcliffe)

     Just finished roffling at today's 'oh lucky you'.....mirth aplenty!

   • 2006, "Gayle", Westboro Baptist Church (on newsgroup alt.support.depression)

     I wondered if someone watching might consider that a 'plan' and feel compelled to, well, build a fence. My own reaction was to roffle and say, "Now ain't that a woman".

English

Alternative forms

• kaffle

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (q?fila, “caravan”). Doublet of cafila.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?fl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?fl?/
• (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?k?fl?/

Noun

coffle (plural coffles)

1. A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 173:

     If the explorer could make Kamalia he might be able to hook up with a slave coffle heading for the coast.

   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 323:

     Her litter came to a sudden halt at the cross street, to allow a coffle of slaves to shuffle across her path, urged along by the crack of an overseer's lash.

   • 2011, Susan Eva O'Donovan, The New York Times, 18 Feb 2011:

     It dominated late-night dinner conversation; it traveled along with marching columns of chained slaves, the infamous coffle lines that remain the iconic face of the domestic slave trade.

Translations

Verb

coffle (third-person singular simple present coffles, present participle coffling, simple past and past participle coffled)

1. (transitive) To fasten (a line of people or animals) together.

Anagrams

• Coffel