Gaffer

“And the man you call the Gaffer was the sergeant, I suppose?”

The Tiger in the Smoke Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1952

JN aka Gaffer 63 is a blogger I discovered a couple of days ago.

DesignerBlog Will 2006

JN aka Gaffer 63 is a blogger I discovered a couple of days ago.

Archive 2006-08-01 Will 2006

The hand of Jesse Hexam, commonly called Gaffer on the river and along shore, is the hand that done that deed.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

And now I tell you, once and away, Lawyer Lightwood, that Jesse Hexam, commonly called Gaffer, his hand and no other, done the deed, on his own confession to me.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

The old, silent man called Gaffer Polglaze found sufficient excitement in the tragedy to loosen a tongue which seldom wagged.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

They were Alexander Williamson, of Dundee, better known as The Gaffer;

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Lawyer Lightwood, that Jesse Hexam, commonly called Gaffer, his hand and no other, done the deed, on his own confession to me.

Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

The hand of Jesse Hexam, commonly called Gaffer on the river and along shore, is the hand that done that deed.

Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

"Gaffer" and "guvnor" are both pure UK and may I add that I hate seeing UK slang used in translations meant for the use of the entire English-speaking world, let alone in an American context.

languagehat.com: THE MOST UNTRANSLATABLE WORD. 2004