goffer

verb, noun — 2 senses

goffer

verb

/ˈɡɒfə/

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

1

To make wavy; to crimp.

  • 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.1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
Derived terms
gofferer

goffer

noun
1

Government, Military, Naval, Navy, Politics, War UK, Slang soft drink; non-alcoholic drink

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