单词 | mizzler |
释义 | † mizzlern.1 slang. Obsolete. A person who is adept at making an escape or getting out of difficulty; a cunning or untrustworthy person. Cf. needy mizzler n. at needy adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 319 Though a needy mizzler myself, I likes to see a cove vot's vel dressed. 1865 Leaves from Diary Celebrated Burglar 115/2 This gave Joe an opportunity of..sending a real sockdolager at the back of the ear of the..‘mizzler’. 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang (1897) (at cited word) Mizzler or rum mizzler (popular), one clever at effecting an escape, or getting out of a difficulty. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2019). mizzlern.2 Australian slang. rare. A person who complains; a moaner, a grumbler. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [noun] > feeble, plaintive, or peevish cry or crying > one who whiner1603 whindle1647 whimperer1737 puler1832 grizzle1893 mizzler1945 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 134 To complain: to mizzle and to whinge (whence come the nouns mizzler and whinger, and the verbal nouns mizzling and whingeing). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11834n.21945 |
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