gauffre
gauffre noun: a gopher, especially the pocket gopher.
Noun
gauffre (plural gauffres)
- A gopher, especially the pocket gopher.
- 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.1854, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 1, in The Young Voyageurs
- A waffle.
- It had the same laxness in texture that all organic structures seem to have upon the moon; it tasted rather like a gauffre or a damp meringue, but in no way was it disagreeable.1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter XIII, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 150
Forms of gauffre
| plural | gauffres |
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Origin of gauffre
See gopher.
Questions about gauffre
- What does gauffre mean?
- Gauffre means a gopher, especially the pocket gopher.
- What part of speech is gauffre?
- Gauffre is a noun.
- What is the plural of gauffre?
- The plural of gauffre is gauffres.
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