gaffa

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English

Noun

gaffa (plural gaffas)

  1. (UK, colloquial) Gaffer tape.
    • 2012, Katherine Angel, Unmastered, Penguin, published 2014, page 250:
      A body – a corpse – my own, I think – wrapped in tape, suspended in gaffa.

French

Pronunciation

Verb

gaffa

  1. third-person singular past historic of gaffer

Italian

Etymology

From Middle French gaffe, from Old Occitan gaf (“hook”), derivative of gafar (“to seize”), either from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍆- (gaf-) derived from 𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (giban, “to give”) or from 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌷 (gafah, “clasp”), from 𐌲𐌰- (ga-) (intensifier) + 𐍆𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (fahan, “to catch”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaf.fa/
  • Rhymes: -affa
  • Hyphenation: gàf‧fa

Noun

gaffa f (plural gaffe)

  1. (nautical) gaff (hooked pole)

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian gaffa. Sense 3 is from Italian gaffa.

Pronunciation

Noun

gaffa f (plural gafef)

  1. (nautical) palm (of a fluke)
  2. bulldozer
  4.  faux pas, gaffe
  5. (figuratively) someone who always has the best cards (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
  6. (figuratively) glutton (one who eats voraciously)
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