Synonyms:
Gent, Gand, Ghent
Meaning: port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry
Synonyms:
chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke
Meaning: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke"
Synonyms:
gent
Meaning: informal abbreviation of `gentleman'
Usage examples
'Excuse me, sir, but who's the old gent?'
'What's the idiot mean!--with his old gent!
I says, 'Well, gent,' I says, 'it's up to youse.
'What did he look like,--this old gent of yours?'
"First gent swing the left-hand lady, with the left hand round."
'What do you mean with your old gent at the window?--what window?'
'Why the old gent peeping through the window of the room upstairs?'
I'd old gent him if I got him!--There's not a creature about the place!'
But, on the other hand, what could have become--in the space of fifty seconds!--of his 'old gent'?
The day was fair, the sky was blue, and everything was peaceful too, when suddenly a well-dressed gent engaged in heated argument and roundly to abuse began another well-dressed gentleman.