"guv'nor" meaning in English

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      "form": "guv'nors",
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      "expansion": "guv'nor (plural guv'nors)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“Now we have to get out of here before the fuzz start sniffing around. Fingers, get the Rolls resprayed and change the number plates in case they trace it.”\n“Yes, guv’nor.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An informal form of address to a man; see guv. This version is especially likely to be applied to the owner of a business or the landlord of a public house."
      ],
      "id": "en-guv'nor-en-noun-6J~Kirnf",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Ireland) An informal form of address to a man; see guv. This version is especially likely to be applied to the owner of a business or the landlord of a public house."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "guv'nor"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "guv'nors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "guv'nor (plural guv'nors)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "British English",
        "Cockney English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“Now we have to get out of here before the fuzz start sniffing around. Fingers, get the Rolls resprayed and change the number plates in case they trace it.”\n“Yes, guv’nor.”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An informal form of address to a man; see guv. This version is especially likely to be applied to the owner of a business or the landlord of a public house."
      ],
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        "(UK, Ireland) An informal form of address to a man; see guv. This version is especially likely to be applied to the owner of a business or the landlord of a public house."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "guv'nor"
}