The story
- French · borrowed fromgaufrer“to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs”
- English todaygauffer
From French gaufrer (“to figure cloth, velvet, and other stuffs”), from gaufre (“honeycomb, waffle”); of Germanic origin. See waffle, wafer, and compare goffer, gopher (“an animal”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.