Gaffer

Antonyms for gaffer:

retainer, employee, worker, matriarch, hand, jobholder.

Synonyms for gaffer:

Sense 1 (noun)

animator, art director, auteur, cameraman, director, filmmaker, Directorial, best boy, bluescreen.

Sense 2 (noun)

biddy, buffer, codger, crone, goat, granddad, old bag, old bat.

gaffer (noun)

antique, boss, chief, foreman, honcho, mossback, old geezer, old-timer, oldtimer.

patriarch (noun)

ancestor, architect, author, chief, creator, elder, father, founder, gaffer, generator, grandfather, graybeard, head, inventor, maker, master, old man, originator, paterfamilias, ruler, senior, sire.

person (noun)

gaffer.

Sense 1

animator, auteur, biddy, cameraman, codger, crone, filmmaker, granddad, old bag, producer, stage manager, stunt man, stunt woman, Directorial, best boy, bluescreen, moviemaker, old bat.

Sense 2

director, goat, POPS.

Sense 4

grip.

Sense 5

buffer.

lout

boor.

Usage examples for gaffer:

• Should ha' thought a girl as I've brought up, as I've brought up you ever since your mother and father died, would have give her poor old gaffer a pinch o' 'bacco now and agen." - "The Man with a Shadow", George Manville Fenn.
• There was " Jerry the Swell", and the jockey- boy Ned, " Dog- bite- me"- so called from the shape of his head- And a man whom the boys, in their musical slang, Designed as the " Gaffer of Mulligan's Gang". - "Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses", A. B. Paterson.
• Better than Gaffer Quelch's, eh? - "The Hero of Garside School", J. Harwood Panting.
• You have been idle a great while, gaffer, but your age- long holiday dies to- day. - "The Proud Prince", Justin Huntly McCarthy.