guv'ner

I've been reading Craig Convault's stories in Aviation Week for the last 13 years off and on - he is the guv'ner.

Sad Day for Aviation Week Readers - NASA Watch 2008

I'm sure the response was something other than "Cheers, guv'ner!"

Archive 2005-06-01 2005

'All right, guv'ner,' I told him, 'you run the show, and I'll take the tickets!'

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

Great fren's with the men, guv'ner -- labor an 'capital, commun'ty' f int'rests, an 'all that -- hic!

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

"The guv'ner" had made threats to disinherit another of his children also, sister Gwendolen, who had married an Italian marquis with a string of titles and a dueling record.

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

He had been on the verge of marrying her once, only "the guv'ner" had sworn to disinherit him, and had presented him with a sum that would stagger the imagination, and that had staggered the virtue of "Little Bright-Eyes."

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

Guv'ner says so hisself, an 'the guv'ner knows -- the guv'ner's got a head for business, you bet!

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

'I say, guv'ner,' she said, 'there'll be some of the coves from dahn our street, and they'll see us.'

Liza of Lambeth 1919

I wasn't no good – I don't deceive you, guv'ner – a no account man I was, swelp me!

Harding's Luck Edith 1909

Guv'ner says so hisself, an 'the guv'ner knows -- the guv'ner's got a head for business, you bet!

The Jungle 1906