gaffer

So you ken what it means, when a gaffer carries on like that, an' the man is saft enough as weel as the woman being willin'.

"I have no time for gossiping," mumbled Gaffer Grebe, with his mouth full of building material.

Gaffer; an old English word, but with a peculiar application in Ireland, where it means a boy, a young chap.

I came to Gaffer and Grannie Cressidge as they smiled at each other when eating the apples and bread.

Outside a shuttered pub a bunch of loiterers listen to a tale which their brokensnouted gaffer rasps out with raucous humour.