gaffer
名词 n.
英 /ɡæfə/
美 /ɡæfɚ/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
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An old person, usually a man.
— 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 […]
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A glassblower.
— The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer's bench […]
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The leader of a group or team, such as a boss, foreman, coach, or publican.
— And you're here to tell me what's what. Just like your bloody gaffer promised.
- Someone aboard a boat whose duty is to gaff a (large) fish once the angler has reeled it in.
- A sailor.
- The baby in the house.
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词源 1
From gaff (“hook”) + -er.
* (cinema): The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.
* (glass)
* (cinema): The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.
* (glass)
词源 2
Likely a contraction of godfather, but with the vowels influenced by grandfather. Compare French compère, German Gevatter.
Compare also Old English ġefædera (“godfather”), of which some unattested dialectal descendant may have been an influence.
Compare also Old English ġefædera (“godfather”), of which some unattested dialectal descendant may have been an influence.
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