gemman

1. (archaic, colloquial, nonstandard) A gentleman.Examples: "But dar am a gemman yere, sah,--" "What!" came a surprised ejaculation that caused the negro to jump, and I heard a chair overturned within."; "But a negro servant who had been stationed as warden at the door refused to allow the messenger to pass in, saying, 'The gemman can't be disturbed.'"; "A gem-man who often comes down with me says his father was a slopseller in Ratcliffe Highway, and afterwards marrying the widow of Admiral Hughes, a rich old West India nabob, he left this young gemman the bulk of his property, and a very worthy fellow he is: but we've another rich fellow that's rather notorious at Brighton, which we distinguish by the name of the silver Ball, only he's a bit of a screw, and has lately ~285~~got himself into a scrape about a pretty actress, from which circumstance they have changed his name to the Foote Ball."