goffer

English

Etymology

From French gaufrer (‘stamp with patterned tool’), from gaufre (‘honeycomb’).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡɒfə/

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.

Anagrams

• geroff