geezer
sustantivosustantivoatestiguado en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈɡiːzə//
- Estados Unidos//ˈɡizɚ//
Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.
sustantivo
- 1
anticuadoA male person.
You are a silly young geezer.
See the hoverboard-riding geezer? This close to payin' a G for a shot of my cousin Calvin's molars.
- 2
jergaSomeone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.
Geezers need excitement / If their lives don't provide 'em this, they incite violence / Common sense, simple common sense
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.
He was a bit of a geezer. Used to box with the Krays when he was a young 'un.
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.
- 3
jergaTerm of address for a male.
Hi, geezer, you alright?
- 4
informalAn old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.
In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife.
The technical term for a female geezer is "old broad," but this is irrelevant, as nobody in Hollywood makes films about women over 55.
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”?
- 5
arcaicoWife; old woman.
He'd flirt and boat, but never wrote / A note to his old geezer.
This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.
Etimología
From guiser. Compare also German Low German Kieser (“an obstinate person; brute; savage”).
sustantivo
- 1
Variante de geyserAlternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”).
Etimología
See geyser.
Formas
- plural
- geezers
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