GOFFER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goffer mean? 

• GOFFER (noun)
  The noun GOFFER has 3 senses:

1. a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)

2. an iron used to press pleats and ridges

3. an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats

  Familiarity information: GOFFER used as a noun is uncommon.

• GOFFER (verb)
  The verb GOFFER has 1 sense:

1. make wavy with a heated goffering iron

  Familiarity information: GOFFER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOFFER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

goffer; gopher

Hypernyms ("goffer" is a kind of...):

busy bee; eager beaver; live wire; sharpie; sharpy (an alert and energetic person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An iron used to press pleats and ridges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gauffer; gauffering iron; goffer; goffering iron

Hypernyms ("goffer" is a kind of...):

iron; smoothing iron (home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An ornamental frill made by pressing pleats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gauffer; goffer

Hypernyms ("goffer" is a kind of...):

flounce; frill; furbelow; ruffle (a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim)

• GOFFER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they goffer    ... he / she / it goffers   
Past simple: goffered   
Past participle: goffered   
-ing form: goffering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make wavy with a heated goffering iron

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

gauffer; goffer

Context example:

goffer the trim of the dress

Hypernyms (to "goffer" is one way to...):

wave (set waves in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something