Gaffer

/ɡæfɚ/

Synonyms for "gaffer" (81 found)

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Noun(3 words)

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As she was going through the wood, she met Gaffer Wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up; but he dared not, because of some fagot-makers hard by in the forest. He asked her whither she was going. The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and hear a wolf talk, said to him:— "I am going to see my grandmother, and carry her a custard and a little pot of butter from my mamma.

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Tom is the gaffer here.

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The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer's bench […]

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If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow, And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale […]

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