gauffer

1. 1.

   make wavy with a heated goffering iron

   “goffer the trim of the dress”

   Synonymsgoffer

   Broaderwave

Other forms of gauffer

plural

gauffers·

past tense

gaufferred·

present participle

gaufferring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gauffer

What does gauffer mean?

gauffer means "an iron used to press pleats and ridges". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gauffer?

gauffer has 2 syllables: gauf-fer. The stress falls on "gauf".

What is another word for gauffer?

Close synonyms include goffer, goffering iron, gauffering iron, goffer, goffer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gauffer a common word?

gauffer is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.