- 1English
- 1.1Etymology 1
- 1.1.2Noun
- 1.2Etymology 2
- 1.2.1Noun
- 1.1Etymology 1
- 2French
- 2.2Verb
- 3Norman
- 4Welsh
English[edit]
A travel team of regional All-Stars originally formed to prepare for the Cooperstown Dreams Park; America's First & Foremost Youth. Set your store and be able to check inventory and pick up at your local store. Shop duct tape in the tapes section of Lowes.com. Find quality duct tape online or in store. List of Top Websites Like Achicagoapplianceservice.com. November 9, 2011. To say it simply, the gaffer is the chief lighting technician of a film crew, and sometimes the traditional name 'gaffer' is dropped in favor of the more official lighting technician.
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Englishgaffe(“a hook”) + -er. The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American)IPA(key): /ɡæfɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key): /ɡæfə/
- Rhymes: -æfə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
gaffer (pluralgaffers)
- (film) A chieflightingtechnician for a motion-picture or television production.
- A glassblower.
- 2003, Jennifer Bosveld, Glass Works (page 18)
- The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer's bench […]
- 2003, Jennifer Bosveld, Glass Works (page 18)
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Etymology 2[edit]
Likely a contraction of godfather, but with the vowels influenced by grandfather. Compare Frenchcompère, GermanGevatter.
Noun[edit]
gaffer (pluralgaffers)
- (colloquial) An old man.
- 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:
- If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail
- Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow,
- And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale […]
- 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:
- (Britain) A foreman.
- A sailor.
- (in Maritime regions) The baby in the house.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:old man
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References[edit]
- “gaffer”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
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French[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
gaffe + -er
Verb[edit]
gaffer
- to make a gaffe; to mess up; botch up
- to gaffer tape
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of gaffer(see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle | gaffant /ɡa.fɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | gaffé /ɡa.fe/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | gaffer | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | gaffant /ɡa.fɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | gaffe /ɡaf/ | gaffes /ɡaf/ | gaffe /ɡaf/ | gaffons /ɡa.fɔ̃/ | gaffez /ɡa.fe/ | gaffent /ɡaf/ |
imperfect | gaffais /ɡa.fɛ/ | gaffais /ɡa.fɛ/ | gaffait /ɡa.fɛ/ | gaffions /ɡa.fjɔ̃/ | gaffiez /ɡa.fje/ | gaffaient /ɡa.fɛ/ | |
past historic2 | gaffai /ɡa.fe/ | gaffas /ɡa.fa/ | gaffa /ɡa.fa/ | gaffâmes /ɡa.fam/ | gaffâtes /ɡa.fat/ | gaffèrent /ɡa.fɛʁ/ | |
future | gafferai /ɡa.fʁe/ | gafferas /ɡa.fʁa/ | gaffera /ɡa.fʁa/ | gafferons /ɡa.fʁɔ̃/ | gafferez /ɡa.fʁe/ | gafferont /ɡa.fʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | gafferais /ɡa.fʁɛ/ | gafferais /ɡa.fʁɛ/ | gafferait /ɡa.fʁɛ/ | gafferions /ɡa.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ | gafferiez /ɡa.fə.ʁje/ | gafferaient /ɡa.fʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | gaffe /ɡaf/ | gaffes /ɡaf/ | gaffe /ɡaf/ | gaffions /ɡa.fjɔ̃/ | gaffiez /ɡa.fje/ | gaffent /ɡaf/ |
imperfect2 | gaffasse /ɡa.fas/ | gaffasses /ɡa.fas/ | gaffât /ɡa.fa/ | gaffassions /ɡa.fa.sjɔ̃/ | gaffassiez /ɡa.fa.sje/ | gaffassent /ɡa.fas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | -- | gaffe /ɡaf/ | -- | gaffons /ɡa.fɔ̃/ | gaffez /ɡa.fe/ | -- | |
compound | -- | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | -- | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | -- | |
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2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading[edit]
- “gaffer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Jersey)
Verb[edit]
gaffer
- (Jersey) to grasp
Welsh[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈɡafɛr/
Verb[edit]
gaffer
- Soft mutation of caffer.
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Mutation[edit]
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
caffer | gaffer | nghaffer | chaffer |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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