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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɡæfɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡæfə/
• 韻: -æfə(ɹ)

名詞

gaffer (plural gaffers)

1. (film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
2. A glassblower.
   • 2003, Jennifer Bosveld, Glass Works, page 18:

     The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer's bench […]

3. Someone aboard a boat whose duty is to gaff a (large) fish once the angler has reeled it in.

派生語

• gaffer grip
• gaffer tape

語源 2

Likely a contraction of godfather, but with the vowels influenced by grandfather. Compare French compère, German Gevatter.

Compare also 古期英語 ġefædera (“godfather”), of which some unattested dialectal descendant may have been an influence.

名詞

gaffer (plural gaffers)

1. (colloquial) An old person, usually a 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 […]

2. (UK, informal) The leader of a group or team, such as a boss, foreman, coach, or publican.
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 117:

     And you're here to tell me what's what. Just like your bloody gaffer promised.

3. A sailor.
4. (Canada) The baby in the house.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:old man

関連する語

• gammer

参照

• “gaffer”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

アナグラム

• Graeff