graff

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɑːf/
• (US, Northern England) IPA^(key): /ɡɹæf/
• Rhymes: -ɑːf, -æf
• Homophones: graph

graff (plural graffs)

1. (botany, archaic) Alternative form of graft
2. (obsolete) A steward; an overseer.
   • John Knox

     [A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ.

graff (third-person singular simple present graffs, present participle graffing, simple past and past participle graffed)

1. (botany, archaic) Alternative form of graft
   • (Can we date this quote?), Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV.‎:

     Truly, said Pantagruel, if I live to go home--which I hope will be speedily, God willing--I'll set off and graff some in my garden in Touraine, by the banks of the Loire, and will call them bon-Christian or good-Christian pears, for I never saw better Christians than are these good Papimans.

   • 1831, William Stewart Rose, Orlando Furioso‎:

     For where men look for fruit they graff the tree, And study still the rising plant to train; And artist uses to refine the gold Designed by him the precious gem to hold.

graff (uncountable)

1. (slang) Clipping of graffiti.

graff m (plural graffs)

1. (slang) Clipping of graffiti

• graffer

Cognate with German grob, Dutch grof.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʀaf/, [ɡʀɑf]

  Rhymes: -ɑf

graff (masculine graffen, neuter grafft, comparative méi graff, superlative am graffsten)

1. rough, coarse
2. coarse, vulgar, crude
3. rugged, hard-wearing

• IPA^(key): /ɡraf/

Borrowing from English graph.

graff m (plural graffau or graffiau)

1. graph (mathematical diagram)

See the etymology of the main entry.

graff

1. Soft mutation of craff.