goffer

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɒfə/

Borrowed from French gaufrer (“to stamp with a patterned tool”), from gaufre (“honeycomb”).

goffer (third-person singular simple present goffers, present participle goffering, simple past and past participle goffered)

1. To make wavy; to crimp.
   • 1985, John Fowles, 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.

goffer (plural goffers)

1. (UK, naval slang) soft drink; non-alcoholic drink

• geroff

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔf.fɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɔffɛr
• Syllabification: gof‧fer

goffer m animal

1. eastern pocket gopher (any pocket gopher of the genus Geomys)

• goffer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• goffery in PWN's encyclopedia