geezer

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːzə(r)
• Homophone: geyser (In some dialects)

Noun

geezer (plural geezers)

1. (informal, chiefly UK, dated in US) A male person.
   • 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves, ch. 19:

     You are a silly young geezer.

2. (UK, slang) Informal address to a male.

   Hi geezer, you alright?

3. (informal, chiefly US, sometimes mildly derogatory) An old person, usually a male.
   • 2000, Moira McDonald, "Outtakes," Seattle Times, 25 Aug. (retrieved 6 Sep. 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.

4. (UK) A device for boiling water for such domestic uses as heating or washing; a boiler. The normal spelling is water geyser.

Derived terms

• geeze
• geezery

Translations

a male person

• Dutch: gozer (nl) m
• Finnish: kaveri (fi), äijä (fi)
• French: mec (fr) m, bougre (fr) m, gars (fr), gars (fr) m
• German: Typ (de) m, Kerl (de) m
• Malay: Lelaki (ms) m

• Russian: мужик (ru) (mužík) m, парень (ru) (párenʹ) m, малый (ru) (mályj) m (colloquial), чувак (ru) (čuvák) m (slang), кент (ru) (kent) m (slang)
• Swahili: manaume (sw)
• Swedish: snubbe (sv)
• Tagalog: lalake (tl)

an old person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 老拙 (cmn) (lǎozhuó) (usually in self-reference), 老頭 (cmn), 老头 (cmn) (lǎotóu), 老頭子 (cmn), 老头子 (cmn) (lǎotóuzi)

• Dutch: oude (nl) m
• French: vieillard (fr) m
• German: Knacker (de) m, Greis (de) m, alter Knacker (de) m, alte Schachtel (de) f (old woman)
• Icelandic: karlfauskur (is) m
• Japanese: 老人 (ja) (ろうじん, rōjin), 爺 (ja) (じじい, jijī), じじい (ja) (jijī) (derogatory), ばばあ (ja) (babā) (old woman)

• Malay: lelaki tua (ms) m
• Russian: старик (ru) (starík) m, старикашка (ru) (starikáška) m (derogatory), старушенция (ru) (starušéncija) f (old woman, derogatory)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: starac (sh) m, čiča (sh) m, striček (sh) m (used by children to adress unfamiliar male adults)

• Swahili: kikaramba (sw)
• Swedish: gubbe (sv)