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Goffer

//ˈɡɒfə// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    soft drink; non-alcoholic drink UK, slang
  2. 2
    an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats wordnet
  3. 3
    an iron used to press pleats and ridges wordnet
  4. 4
    a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) wordnet
Verb
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    make wavy with a heated goffering iron wordnet

Etymology

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

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