How to pronounce goffer
American English pronunciation
GOF-er
- IPA
- /ˈɡɑfɚ/
- Syllables
- GOF · er (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What goffer means
To press ruffles or waves into cloth with a hot iron
In a sentence: The maid had to goffer every frill on the queen's lace collar.
Where it comes from: It was borrowed from a French word meaning to stamp with a patterned tool, from the French word for a honeycomb.
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