gaffer
noun
1 gaffer
An elderly man.
synonyms: antique, old-timer, old geezer, oldtimer.
Roget 130:
veteran,
old man,
seer,
patriarch,
graybeard;
grandfather,
grandsire;
grandam;
gaffer,
gammer;
crone;
pantaloon;
sexagenarian,
octogenarian,
nonagenarian,
centenarian;
old stager;
dotard
etc.
501.
preadamite†,
Methuselah,
Nestor,
old Parr;
elders;
forefathers
etc.
(paternity)
166.
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Roget 373:
man,
male,
he,
him;
manhood
etc.
(adolescence)
131;
gentleman,
sir,
master;
sahib;
yeoman,
wight†,
swain,
fellow,
blade,
beau,
elf,
chap,
gaffer,
good man;
husband
etc.
(married man)
903;
Mr. ,
mister;
boy
etc.
(youth)
129.
[Male animal]
cock,
drake,
gander,
dog,
boar,
stag,
hart,
buck,
horse,
entire horse,
stallion;
gibcat†,
tomcat;
he goat,
Billy goat;
ram,
tup;
bull,
bullock;
capon,
ox,
gelding,
steer,
stot†.
androgen.
homosexual,
gay,
queen [Slang].
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Roget 876:
commonalty,
democracy;
obscurity;
low condition,
low life,
low society,
low company;
bourgeoisie;
mass of the people,
mass of society;
Brown Jones and Robinson;
lower classes,
humbler classes,
humbler orders;
vulgar herd,
common herd;
rank and file,
hoc genus omne [Lat.];
the many,
the general,
the crowd,
the people,
the populace,
the multitude,
the million,
the masses,
the mobility,
the peasantry;
king Mob;
proletariat;
fruges consumere nati [Lat.],
demos,
hoi polloi [Gr.],
great unwashed;
man in the street.
mob;
rabble,
rabble rout;
chaff,
rout,
horde,
canaille;
scum of the people,
residuum of the people,
dregs of the people,
dregs of society;
swinish multitude,
foex populi†;
trash;
profanum vulgus [Lat.],
ignobile vulgus [Lat.];
vermin,
riffraff,
ragtag and bobtail;
small fry.
commoner,
one of the people,
democrat,
plebeian,
republican,
proletary†,
proletaire†,
roturier†,
Mr.
Snooks,
bourgeois,
epicier [Fr.],
Philistine,
cockney;
grisette†,
demimonde.
peasant,
countryman,
boor,
carle†,
churl;
villain,
villein;
terrae filius [Lat.],
son of the land;
serf,
kern†,
tyke,
tike,
chuff†,
ryot†,
fellah;
longshoreman;
swain,
clown,
hind;
clod,
clodhopper;
hobnail,
yokel,
bog-trotter,
bumpkin;
plowman,
plowboy†;
rustic,
hayseed [Slang],
lunkhead [U.S.],
chaw-bacon [Slang],
tiller of the soil;
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
groundling†;
gaffer,
loon,
put,
cub,
Tony Lumpkin†,
looby†,
rube [U.S.],
lout,
underling;
gamin;
rough;
pot-wallopper†,
slubberdegullion†;
vulgar fellow,
low fellow;
cad,
curmudgeon.
upstart,
parvenu,
skipjack†;
nobody,
nobody one knows;
hesterni quirites [Lat.],
pessoribus orti [Lat.];
bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.],
novus homo [Lat.],
snob,
gent,
mushroom,
no one knows who,
adventurer;
man of straw.
beggar,
gaberlunzie†,
muckworm†,
mudlark†,
sans culotte,
raff†,
tatterdemalion,
caitiff,
ragamuffin,
Pariah,
outcast of society,
tramp,
vagabond,
bezonian†,
panhandler [Slang],
sundowner†,
chiffonnier,
Cinderella,
cinderwench†,
scrub,
jade;
gossoon†.
Goth,
Vandal,
Hottentot,
Zulu,
savage,
barbarian,
Yahoo;
unlicked cub†,
rough diamond†.
barbarousness,
barbarism;
boeotia.
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Dutch: old-timer, oldtimer
Polish: dziad, dziadek, staruszek, starzec
2 gaffer
An electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set.
Polish: oświetlacz, oświetleniowiec
3 gaffer
A person who exercises control over workers.
synonyms: boss, chief, foreman, honcho.
Dutch: meesterknecht, onderbaas, opzichter, ploegbaas, voorman
Moby thesaurus: Big Brother, Father Time, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, auditor, boatswain, boss, centenarian, chief, comptroller, controller, dotard, duffer, elder, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, ganger, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, head, headman, inspector, monitor, nonagenarian, noncommissioned officer, octogenarian, old boy, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old man, old party, old-timer, older, oldster, overman, overseer, pantaloon, patriarch, presbyter, proctor, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, sirdar, slave driver, straw boss, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, the quiet-voiced elders, venerable sir, veteran, visitor ... show more.
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