| 释义 |
Definition of geezer in English: geezernoun ˈɡiːzəˈɡizər informal 1British A man. 〈非正式〉男子 he strikes me as a decent geezer Example sentencesExamples - He's a sound bloke, solid, reliable and in short a diamond geezer.
- I was in Camden today and I came across this street ‘entertainer’ who would challenge the pan pipe geezers when it comes to the irritability factor.
- I might add that the guy doing the stage running around was a top geezer.
- Forget urban legends about dodgy geezers winding back car odometers using a power drill; that takes hours.
- I remember sitting around the campfire at a corporate off-site, roasting a marshmallow and thinking, ‘What is this geezer talking about?’
- They are the proverbial cheeky London chappies, as cocky as two geezers barely out of their teens are entitled to be when blessed with an obvious talent.
- I kept passing geezers on very expensive bikes with their heads down, giving it their all (although all of them responded well to my friendly nod).
- If there's another geezer out there to challenge this passage for sheer exuberance, he or she is a person I long to meet.
- The original Essex geezers of electro-pop have a tremendous new album, an impressive array of emotional scars and a re-invigorated lust for life to discuss.
- It was quite comical watching these gruff geezers peering under the van trying to coax the kitten out, making cooing noises at it, etc.
- I got your number from a geezer down the Circle, a bloke with a pony tail who said you could sort me out.
- But mainly my punishment would be reserved for geezers playing pan pipes.
- Like as not I'd have developed an aversion to people I didn't know, turned in on myself, and ended up a miserable old man instead of the happy old geezer I have become.
- The industrial practice of ‘annualisation’ may not seem the most promising screen material, but our own cinematic standbys of cheeky gangsters, clubland geezers and lovable young lads look pretty dreary in comparison.
- Well, although there are a couple of chilled-out looking geezers eyeing up the racks of frills when I visit, I still have my doubts.
2North American derogatory An old man. 〈非正式〉男子 Example sentencesExamples - Where Jim was a lean, flexible, athletic type, this old man before me was an enormous old geezer who would've had the good sense to glue his fat lips shut every morning.
- Maybe it was the seating; maybe this geezer's senses are overwhelmed by having to watch a picture show that only a hummingbird could comprehend.
- The man stares after him, in his head denying that he'll ever be like that, that he'll die in a blaze of glory before he becomes some old geezer who can hardly make it up the stairs to his apartment.
- As we turned to go, a tall old geezer with a long walking stick was in our way.
- Three go-go dancers out racing their cars in the desert learn about a half-mad old geezer's legendary stash of money, and try to steal it.
- But unless you're an 85-year-old geezer, the numbers say you won't entertain such scary thoughts.
- And the attendant was a thin greying geezer, way past retirement.
- How can they expect anyone to sleep, anyway, when that whuffing geezer of a night nurse pops in every half-hour or so, and floods the room with obnoxious light.
- He was this old geezer who should have retired at least two years ago, but could never bring himself to leave.
- I guess you could consider me a dull old geezer who is not yet 65, but over 55 and who is still not accustomed to doing nothing for a living.
- They fool everyone into believing they're all powerful, but then you get up close and peel back the curtain, and it's just some old geezer with a few levers sticking out of the control panel.
- It's a very slippery slope between ‘productive veteran’ and ‘washed-up geezer.’
- He can be pretty cool sometimes, but mostly, he's a stuckup old geezer.
- No way am I hauling some old geezer's new dresser when I've got some serious celebrating to do.
- Now fast-forward to what next season could be: the saga of an 39-year-old geezer who hasn't seen game action in three years.
- ‘Be thankful that old geezer has a soft heart,’ he snarls.
- So here I sit under a canopy hoping and praying that the next old geezer to step up has a heart attack before he can finish the match.
- I'm willing to bet it belonged to some old geezer.
- After painting his self-portrait of a grumpy old geezer, he suddenly became friendly.
- That should be perfectly understandable, seeing as that old geezer has an even worse temper than mine, and that's really saying something.
OriginLate 19th century: representing a dialect pronunciation of earlier guiser 'mummer'. An informal word for a ‘man’, geezer represents a dialect pronunciation of the earlier form guiser (related to disguise) meaning ‘mummer, someone who dresses up’. In recent use it sometimes has a connotation of shady dealing.
Rhymesappeaser, Caesar, easer, Ebenezer, El Giza, freezer, geyser, Louisa, Pisa, seizer, squeezer, teaser, Teresa, Theresa, visa, wheezer Definition of geezer in US English: geezernounˈɡizərˈɡēzər informal 1North American derogatory An old man. 〈非正式〉男子 Example sentencesExamples - But unless you're an 85-year-old geezer, the numbers say you won't entertain such scary thoughts.
- Maybe it was the seating; maybe this geezer's senses are overwhelmed by having to watch a picture show that only a hummingbird could comprehend.
- After painting his self-portrait of a grumpy old geezer, he suddenly became friendly.
- I guess you could consider me a dull old geezer who is not yet 65, but over 55 and who is still not accustomed to doing nothing for a living.
- ‘Be thankful that old geezer has a soft heart,’ he snarls.
- It's a very slippery slope between ‘productive veteran’ and ‘washed-up geezer.’
- Three go-go dancers out racing their cars in the desert learn about a half-mad old geezer's legendary stash of money, and try to steal it.
- Where Jim was a lean, flexible, athletic type, this old man before me was an enormous old geezer who would've had the good sense to glue his fat lips shut every morning.
- So here I sit under a canopy hoping and praying that the next old geezer to step up has a heart attack before he can finish the match.
- They fool everyone into believing they're all powerful, but then you get up close and peel back the curtain, and it's just some old geezer with a few levers sticking out of the control panel.
- Now fast-forward to what next season could be: the saga of an 39-year-old geezer who hasn't seen game action in three years.
- He can be pretty cool sometimes, but mostly, he's a stuckup old geezer.
- That should be perfectly understandable, seeing as that old geezer has an even worse temper than mine, and that's really saying something.
- No way am I hauling some old geezer's new dresser when I've got some serious celebrating to do.
- And the attendant was a thin greying geezer, way past retirement.
- How can they expect anyone to sleep, anyway, when that whuffing geezer of a night nurse pops in every half-hour or so, and floods the room with obnoxious light.
- The man stares after him, in his head denying that he'll ever be like that, that he'll die in a blaze of glory before he becomes some old geezer who can hardly make it up the stairs to his apartment.
- He was this old geezer who should have retired at least two years ago, but could never bring himself to leave.
- I'm willing to bet it belonged to some old geezer.
- As we turned to go, a tall old geezer with a long walking stick was in our way.
2British A man. 〈非正式〉男子 he strikes me as a decent geezer
OriginLate 19th century: representing a dialect pronunciation of earlier guiser ‘mummer’. |