gaf
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Noun, Adjective
Gender: Neuter
This might be just an editorial note deleting an entry in the Main Volume.
gaf
; adj. Dele, and see gaf-sprǽc:
-gaf; n. See ge-gaf.
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279 of the Supplement of the paper dictionary.
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Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:- Toller, T. Northcote, and Joseph Bosworth. "gaf." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth : Supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921. 279.
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GAF
; adj. Base, vile, lewd; turpis, vīlis, lŏquax :-- Hwǽr biþ his gaf spræc where will be his wanton discourse? Basil admn. 8; Norm. 50, 28. [Scot. gaff to talk loudly and merrily (?)]. DER. ge-gaf; and cf. gaffetung.
gaf
gave, Salm. Kmbl. 114, note; Sal. 56; p. of gifan.