Gaff

What do we mean by gaff?

A public place of entertainment, especially a cheap or disreputable music hall or theater. noun

A house, building, or apartment, especially where one resides. noun

A large iron hook attached to a pole or handle and used to land large fish. noun

A spar attached to the mast and used to extend the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail. noun

A sharp metal spur or spike fastened to the leg of a gamecock. noun

A climbing hook used by telephone and electric line workers. noun

A trick or gimmick, especially one used in a swindle or to rig a game. noun

Harshness of treatment; abuse. noun

To hook or land (a fish) using a gaff. transitive verb

To equip (a gamecock) with a gaff. transitive verb

To take in or defraud; swindle. transitive verb

To rig or fix in order to cheat. transitive verb

To hook with a gaff; land by means of a gaff: as, to gaff a fish.

To use the gaff: as, to gaff for an angler.

Short for gaffer. noun

A sharp, strong iron hook, like a large fish-hook without a barb, inserted into or otherwise attached to a wooden handle of convenient length, used especially for landing large fish, as salmon, pike, bass, or the like, after they have been hooked on the line. Also called gaffhook. noun

Nautical, a spar used to extend the upper edge of fore-and-aft sails which are not set on stays, as the mainsail of a sloop or the spanker of a ship. noun

The metal spur bound to the shanks of fighting-cocks; a gaffle.— noun

A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.

A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.

A trick or con.

The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.

A garment worn to hide the genitals.

"gaff" is an irish slang word for "house", its also used across Scotland and parts of England and Wales Urban Dictionary

An irish expression refering to ones house Urban Dictionary

Noun. British slang for one's flat/apartment. Urban Dictionary

Panties designed for men to hide their bulge and tuck it underneath them like a good crossdresser should Urban Dictionary

An Irish term for a house party Urban Dictionary

1. A mistake 2. Place of abode Urban Dictionary

Guyanese word for " to have a conversation". Urban Dictionary

A tobacco cigarette, usually of the roll-up variety. An abbreviation of "gaffer". Urban Dictionary

A long pole usually made out of bamboo or aluminum with a hook on the end. it is stuck into large fishes in order to bring them onto a fishing boat. Urban Dictionary

A slang word, used mostly in Britain as another word for house. Mostly used by morons and tools. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to gaff:
gaff.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word gaff:
staysail, foresail, spanker, topsail, halyard, mainsail, topmast, mizen, jib, rigged, lateen, mizzen, rig, bowsprit, ketch, rigs, lug, sails, mast, vang, sail, rigging, sailboat, spar, schooner, sloop, hoisted, tack, cutter, fore, bermuda, unicorn, marconi, hauling, fisherman, aft, keel, ensign, tko, boom, hook, triangular, sailing, gus, deck, brig, stays, cage, yacht, yard, boats, lateral, flown, newfoundland, warriors, vessel, attached, hull, vertical, blade, fishing, afl, boat, carries, knows, vessels, cards, craft, snow, fish, pole, sufficient, sailed, square, evolved, edge, fighting, fixed, dream, flying, indiana, ships, carry, grounds, shop, typically, main, fight.

Words that rhyme with gaff:
staff, half, laugh, graph, chaff, calf, gaffe, behalf, epitaph, monograph, giraffe, photograph, telegraph, autograph, paragraph, naff, carafe, graf, gaf, raff, phonograph, staph, raphe, lithograph, riffraff, raf, draff, taff, choreograph, polygraph, falstaff, mimeograph, haff, laff, flagstaff, sclaff, allograph, graff, spectrograph, chief of staff, hectograph, belly laugh, paff, rhaphe, bar graph, skaff, scaff, wagstaff, golden calf, msafp, schaff, pfaff, time and a half, overstaff, unitaf, shaff, general staff, graef, understaff, echograph, mass spectrograph, taffe, metcalf, sir john falstaff, box calf, wireless telegraph, office staff, second half, braff, research staff, assaf, first half, maintenance staff, service staff, bickerstaff, sound spectrograph, sales staff, headquarters staff, x-ray photograph, last half, security staff, biggerstaff, graeff, grandstaff, longstaff, fraph, grindstaff, graefe, sielaff, hackstaff, intergraph, pendergraph, pinkstaff, reprograph, yaffe.

Adjectives that are often used to describe gaff:
main, spanker, shandy, short, long, mizzen, handled, small, big, old, giff, heavy, broken, penny, ready, naked, lower, strong, foot, curved, steady, monkey, ensign, sharp, straight, fore, barbed, slasher, huge, splintered, spare, hooked, peaked, telescopic, deadly, and, the, wooden, stronger, worth, cruel, edged, whale, longer, bloody, fatal, lazy, terrible, shocking, pointed, net, expert, mainmast, plain, detachable, slender.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective gaff:
topsail, hooks, sail, hook, sentiment, man.

Consonant match to gaff:
gaffe, goof, guff, gaf, gough, goff, giff.

Words that sound like gaff:
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