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. (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.

3. (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) Malay: Lelaki (ms) m. Swahili: manaume (sw)

Swedish: snubbe (sv) Tagalog: lalake (tl)

An old person

Icelandic: karlfauskur (is) m. Malay: lelaki tua (ms) m. Serbian: čiča (sr) m. Swahili: kikaramba (sw)

Swedish: gubbe (sv)