gauffre

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English

Etymology

See gopher.

Noun

gauffre (plural gauffres)

  1. A gopher, especially the pocket gopher.
    • 1854, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 1, in The Young Voyageurs:
      There, too, may be seen the “barking-wolf” and the “swift fox.” It is the favourite home of the marmots, and the gauffres or sand-rats; and there, too, the noblest of animals, the horse, runs wild.
  2. A waffle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gauffre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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