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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GAFFER)

• Codger
• Gaffer
• churl
• curmudgeon

Related words: (words related to GAFFER)

• 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.