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Geezer

//ˈɡizɚ// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A male person. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, dated, informal

    "You are a silly young geezer."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”). South-Africa, alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric wordnet
  4. 4
    Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy. Cockney, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang

    "Geezers need excitement / If their lives don't provide 'em this, they incite violence / Common sense, simple common sense"

  5. 5
    Term of address for a male. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang

    "Hi, geezer, you alright?"

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  1. 6
    An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man. Canada, US, derogatory, informal, mildly, sometimes

    "In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife."

  2. 7
    Wife; old woman. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, archaic, slang

    "He'd flirt and boat, but never wrote / A note to his old geezer."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From guiser. Compare also German Low German Kieser (“an obstinate person; brute; savage”).

Etymology 2

See geyser.

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