goffer
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French gaufrer (“to stamp with a patterned tool”), from gaufre (“honeycomb”).
Verb edit
goffer (third-person singular simple present goffers, present participle goffering, simple past and past participle goffered)
- 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 edit
To make wavy; to crimp
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
goffer (plural goffers)
- (UK, naval slang) soft drink; non-alcoholic drink
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Etymology edit
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Noun edit
goffer m animal
- eastern pocket gopher (any pocket gopher of the genus Geomys)
Declension edit
Declension of goffer