Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gauffer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gauf-fer
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To plait, crimp, or flute

Transitive verb

verb

To decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"gauffered crape"
"High heels were conspicuous everywhere, but it was left to Italy to have the honour of popularising the most ridiculous fashion of the chopines or stilted clogs, which asserted themselves at different heights, mostly outrageous, beneath a covering of gauffered leather, a commodity which looks like the modern poker-work."
"Into the hollow cylinder a red-hot iron is pushed, which heats it; and the smooth outside of the latter is used, on which articles such as frills and plaited articles are drawn. Crimping and gauffering-machines are used for a kind of plaiting where much regularity is required."

Etymology

From French gaufrer (“to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs”), from gaufre (“honeycomb, waffle”); of Germanic origin. See waffle, wafer, and compare goffer, gopher (“an animal”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: gaufrer, -

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

gauffers (present, singular) gauffering (participle, present) gauffered (participle, past) gauffered (past)

Synonyms

goffer goffering iron gauffering iron

Questions

What does gauffer mean?: To plait, crimp, or flute
Where does gauffer come from?: It is traced to French.

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