Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- Informal. gentleman(defs 1, 2).
noun
- Flemish name of Ghent.
- the, Informal. a men’s room.
noun
- (functioning as singular) British informal a men’s public lavatory
noun
- informal short for gentleman
noun
- the Flemish name for Ghent
short for gentleman, by 17c. (in early uses it is difficult to distinguish the shortening from the common abbreviation gent.). “Early in the nineteenth century the word was colloquial and slightly jocular; about 1840 its use came to be regarded as a mark of low breeding” [OED].