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goozer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈɡuːzə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɡuzɚ/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (slang) A lowlife, a despised person.
    • But I don't believe any preacher should be riding on the coupling pole while some old goozer of a deacon or Jezebel sits on the front seat — that's his place, let him ride on the front seat and drive the team. 1938, John Frank Norris, Inside History of First Baptist Church, Fort Worth and Temple Baptist Church, Detroit:
    • No goozer or floater need apply. 1918, The American Artisan, volume 75, number 2:
    • He's got a tongue like a tanner's vat, that goozer. Wants a lump o' lead in 'is baskit 'e does. 1913, Gilbert Parker, “At Brinkwort’s Farm”, in The Judgment House […], uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC, book IV, page 428:
  2. (UK, slang) A kiss, a smooch.
    • And then there's the visiting, with a million mad cartrips all around Dublin to the uncles and aunties who, right up until your eighteenth birthday, always seek you out by the peanut bowls and the 7-Up, and give you a pressie and a big goozer on the cheek for your troubles. 2013, Kevin Maher, The Fields, →ISBN:

Forms

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goozers Number=Plur lexicographic

goozer en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈɡuːzə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈɡuzɚ/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (UK, slang, transitive) To kiss.
    • So your best bet to win is to spend your money in the boozer. / There you have a chance to win some merry maiden's goozer. / And then begins the greatest, riskiest lottery of your life, / Will the maiden you have goozered be the best choice for a wife? 2004, Tony Dawson, A to Z of Comical Poems and Jokes, →ISBN:

Forms

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goozering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goozered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goozered Tense=Past lexicographic
goozers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic