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Gauffer

Definitions: Gauffer

Gauffer

Noun

1. An iron used to press pleats and ridges.

2. An ornamental frill made by pressing pleats.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Gauffer \Gauf"fer\, transitive verb. [French expression gaufrer to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs, from gaufre honeycomb, waffle; of German origin. See Waffle, Wafer, and compare to Goffer, Gopher an animal.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Gauffer

Synonym: goffer (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Gauffer

Language Translations for "gauffer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

плисе (doubling, goffer, plait, pleat). (various references)

   

Czech

  

kadeřit (Crimp, curl, goffer), želízko (curling irons, goffer). (various references)

   

Danish

  

gaufrere (emboss, figure, goffer, watering). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

blinddrukken reliëfdrukken (emboss, figure, goffer). (various references)

   

French

  

gaufrer. (various references)

   

German

  

gaufrieren (emboss, figure, goffer, watering), prägen (characterize, coinage, emboss, embossing, figure, goffer, imprint, leave its mark on, mint, Mold, print, set of matrices, shape, stamp, strike, to coin, to emboss). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σχηματογραφώ (emboss, figure, goffer), σχηματοτυπώνω (emboss, figure, goffer), γκοφράρω (emboss, figure, goffer). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gumírozás (goffer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

auffergay

   

Portuguese

  

gofrar (emboss, figure, goffer), vivo (above ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, Cork, Corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervently, frit, gay, graphic card, graphically, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, lummox, lute, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimbleness, Nirvana, parlance, perm, pertain, piddle, piping, poignantly, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), plissado (goffer, gopher, pleat, pleating). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гофрировка (goffer, gopher). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

utisnuti šare, plisirati (pleat). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gofradora (embosser, embossing machine, goffer), poco seguro (indefinite, unsound), estampar (block, emboss, engrave, figure, goffer, impress, imprint, machine, pattern, place, plant, press, print, pull, stamp, swage, tool, work off). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

goffrering (goffer), goffrera (goffer). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crisp, crook, curl, curl up, do successfully, drape, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frill, frizz, frizzle, goffer, gopher, handle, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, meander, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), kırma yapmak (goffer, gopher), kırma demiri (goffer, gopher). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

щипці для гофрування (goffer), гофрувати (corrugate, frill, goffer, quill, ruffle), гофрування (gauffering, goffer, goffering, plait). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Gauffer

Derivations

Words beginning with "gauffer": gauffered, gauffering, gauffers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Gauffer"

Words rhyming with "gauffer" (pronounced 'Gauf"fer'): Afer, Chauffer, Fierasfer, gaffer, goffer, Graffer, Outsuffer, Zaffer. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Gauffer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-g-r-u"

-1 letter: gaffer.

-2 letters: argue, auger, feuar, gaffe, gruff, ruffe, rugae.

-3 letters: ager, ague, fare, fear, frae, frag, frug, gaff, gaur, gear, grue, guar, guff, raff, rage, ruff, ruga, urea, urge.

-4 letters: aff, age, are, arf, ear, eau, eff, era, erg, fag, far, fer, feu, fug, fur, gae, gar, rag, ref, reg, rue, rug.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ar, ef, er, fa, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-g-r-u"
 

+1 letter: gauffers, suffrage.

 

+2 letters: gauffered, suffrages.

 

+3 letters: gauffering.

 

+4 letters: suffragette.

 

+5 letters: chauffeuring, suffragettes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Gauffer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 61 75 66 66 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01110101 01100110 01100110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#117 &#102 &#102 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0075 0066 0066 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41678772727184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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