Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To press ridges or narrow pleats into (a frill, for example).
- n. An iron used for pressing ridges or narrow pleats.
- n. Ridges or pleats produced in this manner.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To plait, flute, or crimp (lace, etc.).
- To raise in relief, especially for ornamental purposes, as thin metal, starched linen, or the like.
- n. An ornamental plaiting used for the frills and borders of women's caps, etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To plait, flute, or crimp. See gauffer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats
- n. an iron used to press pleats and ridges
- v. make wavy with a heated goffering iron
- n. a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
Etymologies
- From French gaufrer (‘stamp with patterned tool’), from gaufre (‘honeycomb’). (Wiktionary)
- French gaufrer, to emboss, from Old French, from gaufre, honeycomb, waffle, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“I'll bet people are praying to him expecting him to provide them with good luck situations on a whimb like a goffer or a slave.”
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“I 'ave curled it with the curling tongs -- not perhaps curl, but what the washerwoman would say -- ` goffer,' and for the rest, can you not see the wire?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goffer’.
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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unusual
zoonotic, escarpment, rampart, bulwark, booby-traps, booby, lipid, synapse, axon, ressentiment, solipsism, panacea and 71 more...
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ripples
wave words
riffles, undulate, burble, guggle, crispation, shimmer, crinkle, purl, fret, billow, wrinkle, scollop and 6 more...
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Pleats
There's more than one way to pleat a cat.
plait, plicature, plication, crinkle, crease, rimple, crimp, ruche, ruck, goffer, fanfold, Wateau and 18 more...
Tweets
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sarra ah! Mar 21, 2008
chained_bear Certainly Dickensian. Mar 21, 2008
reesetee Though criming lace would be an interesting occupation. Mar 21, 2008
chained_bear yes, it's crimping. Mar 21, 2008
bilby crimping? Mar 21, 2008
sarra Are you sure about criming? Nothing close to it is in the OED. Mar 21, 2008
chained_bear "He had been washing, ironing and goffering (where appropriate) all Jack's and Stephen's shirts, neck-cloths, handkerchiefs, waistcoats, drawers, and duck trousers..."
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 95
"Goffering-iron: An iron tool used for crimping, or goffering, lace, frills, and the like." (A Sea of Words, 216)
See also goffering-iron. Mar 21, 2008