gaffer
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"Thank you for everything and all the best in the next chapter, Gaffer."
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2024
Gaffer calls me 'mother hen' because I see them as my little chicks.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2021
Poor Gaffer had struggled to something like 15 from 120 balls, every single run a gift from above, and his eyes lit up when Jayasuriya pitched a short one miles wide of leg stump.
From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2013
Gaffer tape is also easy to remove and doesn’t leave residue.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2010
Old Gaffer Gamgee stopped even pretending to work in his garden.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing gaffer
Theater - Middle School
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