goozer

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːzə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuzɚ/

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• Rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: gooz‧er

Noun

goozer (plural goozers)

1. (slang) A lowlife, a despised person.
   • 1913, Gilbert Parker, “At Brinkwort’s Farm”, in The Judgment House […], uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC, book IV, page 428:

     He's got a tongue like a tanner's vat, that goozer. Wants a lump o' lead in 'is baskit 'e does.

   • 1918, The American Artisan, volume 75, number 2:

     No goozer or floater need apply.

   • 1938, John Frank Norris, Inside History of First Baptist Church, Fort Worth and Temple Baptist Church, Detroit:

     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.

2. (chiefly British, slang) A kiss, a smooch.
   • 2013, Kevin Maher, The Fields, →ISBN:

     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.

Verb

goozer (third-person singular simple present goozers, present participle goozering, simple past and past participle goozered)

1. (transitive, chiefly British, slang) To kiss.
   • 2004, Tony Dawson, A to Z of Comical Poems and Jokes, →ISBN:

     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?