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Gaffle vs Maffle - What's the difference?

gaffle | maffle |

As verbs the difference between gaffle and maffle

is that gaffle is to seize while maffle is to stammer.

As a noun gaffle

is (obsolete) a lever used to bend a crossbow.

gaffle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A lever used to bend a crossbow
  • A steel spur attached to a gamecock
  • Verb

    (gaffl)
  • To seize
  • To steal
  • Gaffling is a planning technique for orienteering relay courses whereby individual routes are planned so as to vary slightly and to make following difficult. This means that the competition depends more on navigational skills rather than just physical ability. See British Orienteering Federation's Event Guideline F for Relay Events, Section 3.
  • To talk incessantly without a purpose, usually about inane or pointless topics; to banter.
  • References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989 (noun sense)

    maffle

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To stammer.
  • (Webster 1913)