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Graffer vs Graffed - What's the difference?

graffer | graffed |

As a noun graffer

is (informal) a graffiti artist or graffer can be (legal|obsolete) a notary or scrivener.

As a verb graffed is

(graff).

graffer

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) A graffiti artist.
  • * 2007 , Christine Dew, Uncommissioned art: an A-Z of Australian graffiti
  • A wall in neighbouring Clifton Hill is also very chatty, but the messages are the tags, pieces and throw-ups of subway-style graffiti writers, whose conversation is directed to other graffers rather than the general public (above).

    Etymology 2

    Compare greffier.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal, obsolete) A notary or scrivener.
  • (Bouvier)
    (Webster 1913)

    graffed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (graff)

  • graff

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) Graffiti.
  • (obsolete) A steward; an overseer.
  • * John Knox
  • [A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff , and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book, year=, author=Francois Rabelais, title=Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV., chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Truly, said Pantagruel, if I live to go home--which I hope will be speedily, God willing--I'll set off and graff some in my garden in Touraine, by the banks of the Loire, and will call them bon-Christian or good-Christian pears, for I never saw better Christians than are these good Papimans.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1831, author=William Stewart Rose, title=Orlando Furioso, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=For where men look for fruit they graff the tree, And study still the rising plant to train; And artist uses to refine the gold Designed by him the precious gem to hold.}} ----