NOUN
- an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats
- a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
- an iron used to press pleats and ridges
VERB
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make wavy with a heated goffering iron
goffer the trim of the dress
How To Use goffer In A Sentence
- However Its normally an extra mit full of cash in the pot from me as I try and turbo speed goffer the place dry This doesn't sound like a good deal. Army Rumour Service
- The goffering iron was made in France, then England.
- Round her waist they made the loveliest belt of mingled blue and yellow, and all over the upper part of her night-gown, in and out among the pretty white frills which Dorcas herself "goffered," so nicely, they made themselves into fantastic trimmings of every shape and kind; bows, rosettes -- I cannot tell you what they did not imitate. The Cuckoo Clock
- December 1st, 2009 1:11 pm ET everyone should mind thier own buissness, what he doe's in his own time, is no ones buissiness. he didn't commit a crime, so he had a little spat with his wife, owh care's? even if he is the best goffer, it's not not our place to judge him. i am on his side all the way. mary roberts atwater calif. jim Will crash hurt Tiger Woods' career?
- Awl ground up in a greesy grimy goffer sawse tew eet wifout a spoonn( butt (hehe) ai brot a strawww!) It’s not what it looks like! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- Ironically, none of this is yet of use to Dr Goffer.
- As for Miss B., she showed up in an elegant goffered flounce…with a frontispiece formed of a single magnificent cauliflower imbedded in mashed potatoes. Mark Twain
- Pinks and columbines, mullein and Canterbury bells, the burning blue of lupin and larkspur, the magenta plush tassels of love-lies-bleeding, the streaked and goffered rosettes of the French marigolds – they have about them the harmonious confusion, the riotous immobility of a crowd of stage peasantry during the principals 'duet. Try Anything Twice
- I'll bet people are praying to him expecting him to provide them with good luck situations on a whimb like a goffer or a slave. United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
- I have to content myself with re-reading passages such as:When Serena presently entered the room, she had changed her walking-dress for a robe of clinging black crape, made high to the throat, and relieved only by a little ruff of goffered lawn. Great Dresses of Mediocre Literature, Meta-Discussion - A Dress A Day