different between wazzock vs wazzer

English

Etymology

Possibly from wiseacre, influenced by pillock, or possibly wazz +? -ock. First attested in the 1984 novel When the Martians Land in Huddersfield by Mike Harding. Harding later suggested that the term came from the instrument used to fling a monarch's excrement out the window.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?waz?k/

Noun

wazzock (plural wazzocks)

1. (Britain, originally Northern England, mildly derogatory, slang) A stupid or annoying person.
   • 2016 18 January, Victoria Atkins MP, House of Commons debate concerning Donald Trump:

     I turn, as I must, to Mr Trump. His comments about Muslims are wrong. His policy to close borders, if he is elected as President, is bonkers. If he met one or two of my constituents in one of the many excellent pubs in my constituency, they may well tell him that he is a wazzock for dealing with the issue in that way.

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English

Noun

wazzer (plural wazzers)

1. (Britain, 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!

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German wazzar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s?.s??r/

Noun

wa??er n

1. water

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Wasser, Wâser

  Alsatian: Wasser, Wâsser, Wàser

  Italian Walser: wasser, wàsser

• Bavarian: Wossa

  Cimbrian: bassar, bazzar

  Gottscheerish: boß?r, 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: ???????? (vaser)