Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To press ridges or narrow pleats into (a frill, for example).
- noun An iron used for pressing ridges or narrow pleats.
- noun Ridges or pleats produced in this manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To plait, flute, or crimp (lace, etc.).
- To raise in relief, especially for ornamental purposes, as thin metal, starched linen, or the like.
- noun An ornamental plaiting used for the frills and borders of women's caps, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To plait, flute, or crimp. See
gauffer .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
make wavy ; tocrimp .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats
- noun an iron used to press pleats and ridges
- verb make wavy with a heated goffering iron
- noun a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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December 1st, 2009 1:11 pm ET everyone should mind thier own buissness, what he doe's in his own time, is no ones buissiness. he didn't commit a crime, so he had a little spat with his wife, owh care's? even if he is the best goffer, it's not not our place to judge him. i am on his side all the way. mary roberts atwater calif. jim
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Awl ground up in a greesy grimy goffer sawse tew eet wifout a spoonn( butt (hehe) ai brot a strawww!)
It’s not what it looks like! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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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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However Its normally an extra mit full of cash in the pot from me as I try and turbo speed goffer the place dry This doesn't sound like a good deal.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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However Its normally an extra mit full of cash in the pot from me as I try and turbo speed goffer the place dry
Army Rumour Service 2009
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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?
Pixie O'Shaughnessy George de Horne Vaizey 1887
chained_bear commented on the word goffer
"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.
March 21, 2008
sarra commented on the word goffer
Are you sure about criming? Nothing close to it is in the OED.
March 21, 2008
bilby commented on the word goffer
crimping?
March 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word goffer
yes, it's crimping.
March 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word goffer
Though criming lace would be an interesting occupation.
March 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word goffer
Certainly Dickensian.
March 21, 2008
sarra commented on the word goffer
ah!
March 21, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word goffer
"I saw her tossing newly gauffred curls as the open roadster headed east, away from Ollie..."
Talking It Over by Julian Barnes, p 104
March 28, 2018