wazzer

English

Noun

wazzer (plural wazzers)

1. (UK, derogatory) A stupid or annoying person; a wazzock.
   • 2003, "Darracq Shawe", Where's the morning crew? (discussion on Internet newsgroup uk.local.bristol)

     Can anyone tell me what happened to the Morning crew on GWR? I go away for a bit and when I come back there ^[sic] gone and replaced by a pair of wazzers!

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Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German wazzar, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of *wódr̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑs̄.s̄ər/

Noun

waȥȥer n

1. water

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Wasser, Wâser

  Alsatian: Wasser, Wâsser, Wàser

  Italian Walser: wasser, wàsser

• Bavarian: Wossa

  Cimbrian: bassar, bazzar

  Gottscheerish: boßər, bàsser

  Mòcheno: bòsser

  Udinese: bosser, bosar, bòsser

• Central Franconian: Wasser, Waßer

  Hunsrik: Wasser, waser

  Transylvanian Saxon: Wåsser

• East Central German:

  Silesian German: Woasser, Wosser, Wasser

  Upper Saxon: Wassor

• German: Wasser
  • Unserdeutsch: Wasser
• Luxembourgish: Waasser
• Rhine Franconian: Wasser

  Hessian: Wassä

  Pennsylvania German: Wasser

• Vilamovian: wosser, woser
• Yiddish: וואַסער‎ (vaser)