Word Meanings - GAFFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. An old fellow; an aged rustic. Go to each gaffer and each goody. Fawkes. Note: Gaffer was originally a respectful title, now degenerated into a term of familiarity or contempt when addressed to an aged man in humble life. 2. A foreman
Additional info about word: GAFFER
1. An old fellow; an aged rustic. Go to each gaffer and each goody. Fawkes. Note: Gaffer was originally a respectful title, now degenerated into a term of familiarity or contempt when addressed to an aged man in humble life. 2. A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers.
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- CODGER
1. A miser or mean person. 2. A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation. A few of us old codgers met at the fireside. Emerson. - GAFFER
1. An old fellow; an aged rustic. Go to each gaffer and each goody. Fawkes. Note: Gaffer was originally a respectful title, now degenerated into a term of familiarity or contempt when addressed to an aged man in humble life. 2. A foreman - CHURLISHLY
In a churlish manner. - CHURLISHNESS
Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy. - CURMUDGEON
An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving. (more info) prob. from OF. muchier, mucier, F. musser to hide; of uncertain - CHURL
husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles , and perh. 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow - CHURLY
Rude; churlish; violent. Longfellow. - CHURLISH
1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper. 2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish - CURMUDGEONLY
Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.