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)
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• Georgian: დანაკეცება (danaḳeceba), გოფრირება (goprireba)

Etymology 2

Noun

goffer (plural goffers)

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

Anagrams

• geroff