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Definition: Geezer |
GeezerNoun1. (informal) a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Geezer \Gee"zer\, noun. [Dial. corrupt. of Guiser mummer.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Slang | Noun. Source: From dialect gulser, murmur. Definition: Someone who is streetwise. a bit merry, maybe someone in trouble with the law. Context: Used when describing someone else. Social Source: British 20-somethings. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: GeezerSynonym: bloke (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Geezer |
| English words defined with "geezer": old geezer. (references) |
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Screenplays | Did you clock the geezer with the gold Hampsteads? (Minder on the Orient Express; writing credit: Andrew Payne) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Little Geezer (1932) | |
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| "Geezer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.26% of the time. "Geezer" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.26% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.74% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 115 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "geezer": old geezer. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "geezer": geezer-good. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
geezer | 43 |
geezer butler | 27 |
gang geezer | 10 |
geezer old | 5 |
caesar geezer | 3 |
geezer humor | 3 |
geezer ole | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "geezer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | plakush, babush (dad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | رجل غريب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дядка (gaffer, granddad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | starší èlovìk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | type (gent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | alter Knacker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γεροπαράξενοσ, παράξενοσ άνθρωποσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | öreg szivar (old geezer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vecchio bislacco. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shenn-chaillagh (gammer, harridan), shenn ghuilley (bachelor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eezergay caramba!. (various references) старикашка (dodderer, old buffer). (various references) čudak (cuss, eccentric, nut, odd fellow, unco, weirdie). (various references) vejestorio (dodo, fuddy-duddy, old fogey), tío (beggar, bugger, chap, chappy, fellow, gaffer, guy, merchant, uncle). (various references) gammalt original. (various references) ชายแก่ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ), ผู้ชาย (bloke, man, masculine). (various references) moruk (baggage, dotard, gaffer, gaga, old bag, pops), ilginç ihtiyar. (various references) b gi (old-wife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "geezer": geezers. (additional references) | |
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"Geezer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beezer, eeza, eeze, Egeler, Ezeer, Feizor, geeser, Geeter, geeze, Geier, Geisberg, geiser, geizer, Geler, Genzken, geyzer, geza, geze, gieser, giezer, gozzer, greeze, gueuze, Gymer, Gyoezoe, gyoza, gyser, gyzer, Joezer, meezer, Ngeze, Seezer, zezeeee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "geezer" (pronounced 'Gee"zer'): Creutzer, Friezer, Kreutzer, Mamzer, Quizzer, Teazer. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-r-z" | |
-2 letters: eger, geez, gree. | |
-3 letters: ere, erg, gee, ree, reg, zee. | |
-4 letters: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-r-z" | |
+1 letter: geezers. | |
+2 letters: energize. | |
+3 letters: energized, energizer, energizes, gazetteer, zeitgeber. | |
+4 letters: energizers, gazetteers, generalize, geometrize, reenergize, refreezing, zeitgebers. | |
+5 letters: generalized, generalizer, generalizes, geometrized, geometrizes, prefreezing, reenergized, reenergizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 65 7A 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . . --.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01100101 01111010 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e e z e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0065 007A 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)417171927184 |
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