different between geeze vs geezer

English

Interjection

geeze

1. Alternative form of geez

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

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