quaffer

1. 1.

   a person who drinks heartily

   Broaderdrinker

Other forms of quaffer

plural

quaffers·

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 quaffer

What does quaffer mean?

quaffer means "a person who drinks heartily".

How many syllables are in quaffer?

quaffer has 2 syllables: quaf-fer. The stress falls on "quaf".

Is quaffer a common word?

quaffer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.