{"id":88,"date":"2006-06-26T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T17:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/word-of-the-day-gaffen\/"},"modified":"2006-06-26T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T17:33:13","slug":"word-of-the-day-gaffen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; gaffen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>gaffen<\/strong>, verb = to gape, gawp, stare<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example of usage:<\/strong><br \/>\ngaff nicht, sondern hilf mir lieber! = don&#8217;t just stand there gawping, come and help!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related words:<\/strong><br \/>\nGaffer(in) = gaper, gawper, starer<br \/>\nGafferei = gaping, gawping, staring<br \/>\nglotzen = to gawp at something<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s word caught my eye while looking through my German dictionary. In British English slang, the gaffer is the boss or foreman, and your gaff is your home, though this usage is a bit old fashioned.<\/p>\n<p>In Scottish Gaelic, the lovely word <em>spleuchd<\/em> means to gape, gaze, goggle, squint, stare, while the Welsh <em>ceg agored<\/em> (lit. &#8220;open mouthed&#8221;) is a stare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gaffen, verb = to gape, gawp, stare Example of usage: gaff nicht, sondern hilf mir lieber! = don&#8217;t just stand there gawping, come and help! Related words: Gaffer(in) = gaper, gawper, starer Gafferei = gaping, gawping, staring glotzen = to gawp at something Today&#8217;s word caught my eye while looking through my German dictionary. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-german","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}