Gaffer vs Ganger - What's the difference?
gaffer | ganger |
(film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
A glassblower.
* 2003 , Jennifer Bosveld, Glass Works (page 18)
(colloquial) An old man.
(British) A foreman.
An "Old Gaffer" is a sailor.
In Maritime regions "the Little Gaffer" is the baby in the house.
As nouns the difference between gaffer and ganger
is that gaffer is rubberneck (undesired spectator a scene of crime or accident) while ganger is .As a preposition ganger is
times, multiplied by.gaffer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) + (-er). The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.Noun
(en noun)- The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer' s bench