gaffa
English
Noun
gaffa (plural gaffas)
- (UK, colloquial) Gaffer tape.
- 2012, Katherine Angel, Unmastered, Penguin 2014, p. 250:
- A body – a corpse – my own, I think – wrapped in tape, suspended in gaffa.
- 2012, Katherine Angel, Unmastered, Penguin 2014, p. 250:
French
Pronunciation
Verb
gaffa
- third-person singular past historic of gaffer
Italian
Etymology
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”).
Noun
gaffa f (plural gaffe)
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