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Definition gaff

Etymology 1

From Middle English gaffe, from Old French gaffe, from Old Occitan gaf (“hook”), derivative of gafar (“to seize”), from Gothic ????- (gaff-) derived from ????? (giban, “to give”).

Noun

gaff (plural gaffs)

  1. A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
  2. A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
  3. A trick or con.
  4. (nautical) The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
  5. A garment worn to hide the genitals.
  6. Gaffer tape.
Verb

gaff (third-person singular simple present gaffs, present participle gaffing, simple past and past participle gaffed)

  1. To use a gaff, especially to land a fish.
  2. To cheat or hoax.
  3. (slang) To gamble.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Old English gafspr?c (“buffoonery, scurrility; blasphemous or ribald speech”), from Old English gaf (“base, vile, lewd”) + Old English spr?c (“language, speech, talk”)

Noun

gaff

  1. Rough or harsh treatment; criticism.
  2. (dated) An outcry; nonsense.

Etymology 3

Unknown. Possibly from Etymology 1, via a sense of "a place that will be robbed" in criminal argot; possibly from Etymology 2, via a sense of "cheap theatre"; possibly from Romani g?w (“village”) (cognate German Kaff (“village”)).

Noun

gaff (plural gaffs)

  1. (Britain, especially Mancunian and Cockney, Ireland, slang) A place of residence.

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