Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaufers
Literary usage of Gaufers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whigs of Scotland: Or, The Last of the Stuarts. An Historical Romance of by William Craig Brownlee (1833)
"And while the populace drank the king's health, with a frantic roar of revelry,
lengthened out by a shrill piping scream of the howdies and gaufers, ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"gaufers, s. pi. tea-cakes of the muffin sort, square, and stamped like net-work
with the ' gaui'er- ing-irons.' Gaulish - handed. ..."
3. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"gaufers, tea-cakes of the muffin sort, but square and made of pancake batter.
GAUK-HANDED, left-handed. ..."
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