goffer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɒfə/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French gaufrer (“to stamp with a patterned tool”), from gaufre (“honeycomb”).

Verb

goffer (third-person singular simple present goffers, present participle goffering, simple past and past participle goffered)

1. To make wavy; to crimp.
   • 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:

     On the back of a chair beside the bed sits perched above the discarded chip hat something apparently precious and taken from the opened bundle on the floor: a flat white cambric hat, its fronts and sides goffered into little flutes.

Translations

To make wavy; to crimp

• Bulgarian: набирам (bg) (nabiram), плисирам (bg) (plisiram)
• Georgian: დანაკეცება (danaḳeceba), გოფრირება (goprireba)
• Polish: karbować impf, skarbować pf, marszczyć (pl) impf, zmarszczyć (pl) pf, fałdować (pl) impf, sfałdować (pl) pf

Etymology 2

Noun

goffer (plural goffers)

1. (UK, naval slang) soft drink; non-alcoholic drink

Anagrams

• geroff

Polish

goffer

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔf.fɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɔffɛr
• Syllabification: gof‧fer

Noun

goffer m animal

1. eastern pocket gopher (any pocket gopher of the genus Geomys)

Declension

Declension of goffer

	singular	plural
nominative	goffer	goffery
genitive	goffera	gofferów
dative	gofferowi	gofferom
accusative	goffera	goffery
instrumental	gofferem	gofferami
locative	gofferze	gofferach
vocative	gofferze	goffery

Further reading

• goffer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• goffery in PWN's encyclopedia