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guv'nor/guv (slang) A contraction of "governor", used to describe a person in a managerial position e.g. "Sorry mate, can't come to the pub, my guv'nor's got me working late tonight". Heard mostly in London.
boss (sometimes shortened to guv'nor), colloquial a local official the top official in a US state government the cabinet or executive branch (US: the administration) the political party supporting the cabinet in parliament: the act or office of governing the collective agency through which government is exercised (UK: the state)
The Guv'nor, a documentary about McLean's life, as seen through the eyes of his son Jamie, was released in 2016. [20] The drama film My Name Is Lenny was released in 2017, featuring Australian actor Josh Helman in the title role, and Michael Bisping as Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
The Guv'nor may refer to: The Guv'nor, a 1935 film starring George Arliss "the Guv'nor", nickname of footballer Diego Costa
Thom Yorke of Radiohead listed "Guv'nor" as his "single of 2012." [ 20 ] In 2017 Pitchfork wrote that " Key to the Kuffs has aged into excellence in the nearly five years since it first came out."
President-elect Donald Trump has floated the idea of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Here's why that could cause some confusion.
Outside of the Spanish-speaking world, John Wilkins proposed using the upside-down exclamation mark "¡" as a symbol at the end of a sentence to denote irony in 1668. He was one of many, including Desiderius Erasmus , who felt there was a need for such a punctuation mark, but Wilkins' proposal, like the other attempts, failed to take hold.