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gaffer | goffer |

As a noun gaffer

is rubberneck (undesired spectator a scene of crime or accident).

As a verb goffer is

to make wavy; to crimp.

gaffer

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) + (-er). The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
  • A glassblower.
  • * 2003 , Jennifer Bosveld, Glass Works (page 18)
    • The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer' s bench
    Related terms
    * gaffer tape

    Etymology 2

    Likely a contraction of (godfather), but with the vowels influenced by (grandfather). Compare (etyl) , (etyl) gevatter.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) An old man.
  • (British) A foreman.
  • An "Old Gaffer" is a sailor.
  • In Maritime regions "the Little Gaffer" is the baby in the house.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Related terms
    * gammer

    References

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    goffer

    English

    Verb

  • To make wavy; to crimp.
  • * 1985 , , 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.

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