geezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡizɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡiːzə/
rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
homophone: geyser
homophone: Giza (in some dialects)
Forms: form: geezers
Etymology: From guiser. Compare also German Low German Kieser (“an obstinate person; brute; savage”).
Senses: examples: text: You are a silly young geezer.
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 19, in Right Ho, Jeeves:
text: See the hoverboard-riding geezer? This close to payin' a G for a shot of my cousin Calvin's molars.
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):
synonyms: word: bloke
word: boy
word: bro
word: broski
word: bruh
word: cat
word: chap
word: chappy
word: chield
word: cove
word: covey
word: dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
word: dawg
word: dude
word: fella
word: fellow
word: gadgie
word: gate
word: geezer
word: gink
word: gloak
word: gome
word: guy
word: health
word: homeboy
word: homey
word: joe
word: lede
word: nigga
word: ninja
word: omi
word: pillicock
word: punk
word: rooster
word: seg
word: shalk
word: wallah
word: wer
word: were
word: wye
glosses: A male person.
raw_tags: in the US
examples: text: Geezers need excitement / If their lives don't provide 'em this, they incite violence / Common sense, simple common sense
ref: 2002, “Geezers need excitement”, in Original Pirate Material, performed by The Streets:
text: 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.
ref: 2003, Carlton Leach, Muscle, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:
text: He was a bit of a geezer. Used to box with the Krays when he was a young 'un.
ref: 2009, Dreda Say Mitchell, Geezer Girls, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2013, Charlotte Ward, Why Am I Always the One Before 'The One'?, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
synonyms: spiv
wide boy
coordinate_terms: chav
glosses: Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.
examples: text: Hi, geezer, you alright?
synonyms: word: mate
word: babber
word: billy
word: bredrin
word: bruv
word: bud
word: buddo
word: buddy
word: butty
word: chaver
word: china
word: chuck
word: chum
word: cock
word: cocker
word: cobber
word: compadre
word: comrade
word: companion
word: cove
word: crony
word: dawg
word: dude
word: duck
word: fam
word: fettler
word: friend
word: geez
word: geezer
word: gink
word: good old boy
word: homeskillet
word: homie
word: kith
word: lover
word: marrow
word: mate
word: matey
word: mucker
word: old bean
word: pal
word: pardner
word: peeps
word: shag
word: sport
word: surry
word: tovarish
word: wantok
glosses: Term of address for a male.
examples: text: In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife.
ref: 1885, Corin, The Truth about the Stage:
text: The technical term for a female geezer is "old broad," but this is irrelevant, as nobody in Hollywood makes films about women over 55.
ref: 2000 August 25, Moira McDonald, “Outtakes”, in Seattle Times, retrieved 06 Sep 2008:
text: 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”?
ref: 2014, The Geezer Gallery, (Please provide the book title or journal name), retrieved 31 Jan 2014:
synonyms: word: antiquity
word: codger
word: gadgie
word: gaffer
word: geezer
word: gramps
word: greybeard
word: old codger
word: old fart
word: old man
word: whitebeard
glosses: An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.
examples: text: He'd flirt and boat, but never wrote / A note to his old geezer.
ref: 1882, J. F. Mitchell, Jimmy Johnson's Holiday:
text: This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.
ref: 1886, Her Mother's Got the Hump:
synonyms: word: ball and chain
word: better half
word: boss
word: bride
word: dutch
word: 'er indoors
word: frow
word: geezer
word: her indoors
word: lady
word: little woman
word: little lady
word: memsahib
word: missus
word: old lady
word: old woman
word: trouble
word: trouble and strife
word: wife
word: wifekin
word: wifelet
word: wifeling
word: wifey
word: old woman
word: babushka
word: bag
word: bat
word: beldame
word: biddy
word: bluehair
word: bubbe
raw_tags: in Jewish contexts
word: carline
word: carlin
word: crone
word: gammer
word: geezer
word: gogo
word: grandam
word: granny
word: grimalkin
word: hag
word: maum
word: old lady
word: old maid
word: prune
word: spinster
word: tabby
word: trot
word: trout
word: witch
glosses: Wife; old woman.
Derived terms: geezerbird
geezerdom
geezerish
geezerlike
geezerly
geezer teaser
geezery
Portugeezer