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ganfers

ganfers is the plural of ganfer.

Meaning of ganfer

Noun

ganfer (plural ganfers)

  1. A kind of ghost found in the folklore of Orkney and Shetland.
    • […] by Ghosts here called Ganfers, in all which many place more confidence than in the more reasonable propositions that can be adduced to convince them of the absurdity of such notions.1879, George Low, A tour through the islands of Orkney and Schetland, with an intr. by J. Anderson, page 8

Questions about ganfers

What is ganfers the plural of?
Ganfers is the plural of ganfer.

Words near ganfers in the dictionary

  1. ganevim
  2. ganevs
  3. Ganey
  4. Ganeys
  5. ganfer
  6. ganfers
  7. gang
  8. gang bang
  9. gang bangs
  10. gang cask
  11. gang casks

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