governor
A man, slouching under the trees, paused as I overtook him.
»You couldn’t oblige me with a light, could you, guv’nor?» he said. (Novel Notes 110. 16.)
Governor stands here as a vulgar mode of address, quite corresponding to the French bourgeois. In Swedish we should say simply: han or Herrn.
In the sense of father or master, employer (The governor: »gubben»), the word is now in everyday colloquial use.