gaufre

See also: gaufré

English

Alternative forms

• gaufer

Etymology

Etymology tree

French gaufrebor.

English gaufre

Borrowed from French gaufre.

Noun

gaufre (plural gaufres)

1. (obsolete) A waffle (flat pastry).

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡofʁ/

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Etymology 1

From Middle French gaufre, from Old French walfre, from Frankish *wāfilu, *wāfilā or Middle Dutch wafele, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wēbilǭ, *wēbilō, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”). Cognate with English waffle. Related also to German Wabe (“honeycomb”).

Noun

gaufre f (plural gaufres)

2. honeycomb
3. waffle (flat pastry)

Derived terms

• gaufrette
• moule à gaufres

Descendants

• → English: gauffre, >? gopher

Etymology 2

From Louisiana or Canadian French, from sense 1 (“honeycomb”), said to be a reference to their burrows.

Alternative forms

• gauphre

Noun

gaufre m (plural gaufres)

1. gopher

   Synonym: géomys

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gaufre

1. inflection of gaufrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “gaufre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gaufre. First attested in 1956.

Noun

gaufre f (uncountable)

1. waffle (flat pastry)
   • 2022, Stranger Things, season 4, episode 3, spoken by Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard):

     Ti ho fatto le gauffre. Si stanno raffreddando.

     I, uh, made you some Eggos, but they're getting kinda cold.

     (literally, “I made you waffles. They are getting cold.”)