Tester

A surname from Old French.

Proper noun

  1. A surname from Old French.
    • But only if one forgets that Mr. Tester is 50 years old, he’s seasoned in state politics, he ran a canny, gloves-off campaign, and he’s the kind of charismatic, hard-to-peg, Western neopopulist (like his friend, Gov....

Origin

From Old French testard (“someone with a big head”), a pejorative from teste (“head”).

Forms

Testers