gaffa
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]gaffa (plural gaffas)
- (UK, colloquial) Gaffer tape.
- 2012, Katherine Angel, Unmastered, Penguin, published 2014, page 250:
- A body – a corpse – my own, I think – wrapped in tape, suspended in gaffa.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]gaffa
- third-person singular past historic of gaffer
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French gaffe, from Old Occitan gaf (“hook”), derivative of gafar (“to seize”), either from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍆- (gaf-) derived from 𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (giban, “to give”) or from 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌷 (gafah, “clasp”), from 𐌲𐌰- (ga-) (intensifier) + 𐍆𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (fahan, “to catch”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gaffa f (plural gaffe)
Maltese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sicilian gaffa. Sense 3 is from Italian gaffa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gaffa f (plural gafef)
- (nautical) palm (of a fluke)
- bulldozer
- faux pas, gaffe
- (figuratively) someone who always has the best cards (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- (figuratively) glutton (one who eats voraciously)
- Synonym: wikkiel
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