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gauffering

gauffering is the present participle and gerund of gauffer.

Meaning of gauffer

Verb

gauffer (third-person singular simple present gauffers, present participle gauffering, simple past and past participle gauffered)

  1. (transitive) To plait, crimp, or flute
    • gauffered crape
    Synonyms:
    goffer
  2. (historical, transitive) To decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron.

Noun

gauffering (plural gaufferings)

  1. A gauffered ornamentation.

Forms of gauffering

pluralgaufferings

Questions about gauffering

What does gauffering mean?
Gauffering means a gauffered ornamentation.
What is gauffering the present participle and gerund of?
Gauffering is the present participle and gerund of gauffer.
What part of speech is gauffering?
Gauffering is a noun.
What is the plural of gauffering?
The plural of gauffering is gaufferings.

Words near gauffering in the dictionary

  1. Gauers
  2. gaufer
  3. gaufers
  4. gauffer
  5. gauffered
  6. gauffering
  7. gaufferings
  8. gauffers
  9. gauffre
  10. gauffred
  11. gauffres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gauffering (page history and authors); gauffer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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