different between coot vs geezer

English

Wikispecies

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English cote (“coot”). Related to Dutch meerkoet.

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Noun

coot (plural coots)

1. Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
2. (colloquial) A foolish or eccentric fellow

   A silly coot.

   An old coot

   A rich coot
3. (slang, with the) A success; something excellent.

   Man that song's the coot.

   Would be the coot if we could go this weekend!

Derived terms

See also

• (bird): fulicine

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare cootie.

Noun

coot (plural coots)

1. (slang) Body louse (Pediculus humanus).

Anagrams

• Coto, octo-, toco, toco-

Middle English

Noun

coot

1. Alternative form of cote (“coat”)

Scots

Etymology

Compare Dutch koot, Flemish keute.

Noun

coot (plural coots)

1. The ankle.

English

Etymology

From guiser. Compare also German Low German Kieser (“an obstinate person; brute; savage”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??iz?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?z?/
• Rhymes: -i?z?(?)
• Homophones: geyser, Giza (in some dialects)

Noun

geezer (plural geezers)

1. (informal, chiefly Britain, dated in US) A male person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man
2. (Britain, chiefly Cockney, slang) Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.

   Synonyms: spiv, wide boy

   • 2003, Carlton Leach, Muscle, John Blake Publishing ?ISBN

     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.

   • 2009, Dreda Say Mitchell, Geezer Girls, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     He was a bit of a geezer. Used to box with the Krays when he was a young 'un.

   • 2013, Charlotte Ward, Why Am I Always the One Before 'The One'?, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     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. (Britain, slang) Term of address for a male.

   Synonyms: mate; see also Thesaurus:friend

4. (informal, chiefly Canada, US, sometimes mildly derogatory) An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:old man

   • 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.

   • 2014, The Geezer Gallery, "[1]," (retrieved 31 Jan 2014):

     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. (South Africa) Alternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”)
6. (archaic, Britain, slang) Wife; old woman.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wife, Thesaurus:old woman

   • 1886, Her Mother's Got the Hump:

     This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.

Derived terms

• geezerdom
• geezerish
• geezery

Translations

Anagrams

• greeze