Meanings
nounsclaffer (plural sclaffers)
plural sclaffers
- golfOne who sclaffs.
At a foot and a half from the hole the clean putter often fails, from incapacity to graduate inches of weakness, whilst the sclaffer succeeds because he is dealing with coarser weight sensitiveness.
1887, Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, The Art of Golf, page 154
Origin
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
sclaffer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sclaffer
MLA
“sclaffer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sclaffer. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sclaffer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sclaffer.
Source: sclaffer on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.