gaffa

English

Noun

gaffa (plural gaffas)

  1. (Britain, colloquial) Gaffer tape.
    • 2012, Katherine Angel, Unmastered, Penguin 2014, p. 250:
      A body – a corpse – my own, I think – wrapped in tape, suspended in gaffa.

French

Pronunciation

Verb

gaffa

  1. third-person singular past historic of gaffer

Italian

Etymology

From Middle French gaffe, from Old Occitan gaf (“hook”), derivative of gafar (“to seize”), either from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍆- (gaf-) derived from 𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (giban, “to give”) or from 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌷 (gafah, “clasp”), from 𐌲𐌰- (ga-) (intensifier) + 𐍆𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (fahan, “to catch”).

Noun

gaffa f (plural gaffe)

  1. (nautical) gaff (hooked pole)
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