| 单词 | geezer |
| 释义 | geezer (once / 31773 pages) n A geezer is an old person. It might hurt your grandfather's feelings if you refer to him as a geezer, since he thinks of himself as being youthful. Use the word geezer when you need an informal, slightly rude word for "wacky old man." If you're in the UK, you can call any man, whatever age he is, a geezer, but in the US it's specifically an old guy. The root of geezer is the now-obsolete Cockney word guiser, which means "mummer," or "masked mime or actor. WORD FAMILYgeezer: geezerhood, geezers USAGE EXAMPLESAfter all, Broadway and Hollywood, they always need old geezers, don’t they? Los Angeles Times(Nov 25, 2016) “It was very, very embarrassing to watch. We were like: ‘What’s this geezer doing? The Guardian(Nov 22, 2016) I'm not surprised you had to go all the way to China to find an old geezer who's NOT an old geezer. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) n a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric Hyper adult male, man an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) |
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