# geezer
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈɡizɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡiːzə/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
* Homophones: geyser, Giza (in some dialects)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

geezer (plural geezers)
* (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated in the US) A male person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man
** 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 19, in Right Ho, Jeeves:You are a silly young geezer.
** 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):See the hoverboard-riding geezer? This close to payin' a G for a shot of my cousin Calvin's molars.
* (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, chiefly Cockney, slang) Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.
    Synonyms: spiv, wide boy
    Coordinate term: chav
** 2002, “Geezers need excitement”, in Original Pirate Material, performed by The Streets:Geezers need excitement / If their lives don't provide 'em this, they incite violence / Common sense, simple common sense
** 2003, Carlton Leach, Muscle, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:He turned out to be a proper geezer who was willing to listen to my proposition that if he took the door at the Ministry, I would pay him £400 a month to mark my cards.
** 2009, Dreda Say Mitchell, Geezer Girls, Hachette UK, →ISBN:He was a bit of a geezer. Used to box with the Krays when he was a young 'un.
** 2013, Charlotte Ward, Why Am I Always the One Before 'The One'?, Hachette UK, →ISBN:When I'd first met Adam, at work when we were both 23, the fact that he seemed a little rough around the edges appealed to me. He was a bit of a geezer, a joker, one of the lads.
* (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Term of address for a male.
    Synonyms: mate; see also Thesaurus:friend
    Hi, geezer, you alright?
* (informal, chiefly Canada, US, sometimes mildly derogatory) An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:old man
** 1885, Corin, The Truth about the Stage:In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife.
** 2000 August 25, Moira McDonald, “Outtakes”, in Seattle Times, retrieved 6 September 2008:The technical term for a female geezer is "old broad," but this is irrelevant, as nobody in Hollywood makes films about women over 55.
** 2014, The Geezer Gallery, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, retrieved 31 January 2014:Why Geezer? Why would a fine arts gallery choose a name that conjures images of a grumpy old guy sitting on the front porch hollering, “get off my lawn”?
* (archaic, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Wife; old woman.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wife, Thesaurus:old woman
** 1882, J. F. Mitchell, Jimmy Johnson's Holiday:He'd flirt and boat, but never wrote / A note to his old geezer.
** 1886, Her Mother's Got the Hump:This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.

##### Derived terms

* geezerbird
* geezerdom
* geezerish
* geezerlike
* geezerly
* geezer teaser
* geezery
* Portugeezer

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

See geyser.

#### Noun

geezer (plural geezers)
* (South Africa) Alternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”).

### Anagrams

* greeze