wazzer

English

Noun

wazzer (plural wazzers)

1. (UK, derogatory) A stupid or annoying person; a wazzock.
   • 2003, Darracq Shawe, “Where's the morning crew?”, in uk.local.bristol (Usenet):

     Can anyone tell me what happened to the Morning crew on GWR? I go away for a bit and when I come back there ^[sic] gone and replaced by a pair of wazzers!

Middle High German

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wed-

Proto-Indo-European *-r̥

Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥

Proto-Germanic *watōr

Proto-West Germanic *watar

Old High German wazzar

Middle High German wazzer

From Old High German wazzar, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of *wódr̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑs̄.s̄ər/

Noun

waȥȥer n

1. water

Declension

Declension of waȥȥer (feminine, class 1 strong)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	daȥ	waȥȥer	diu	waȥȥer
genitive	eines	dës	waȥȥers, waȥȥeres	dër	waȥȥer, waȥȥere
dative	eime	dëm	waȥȥer, waȥȥere	dën	waȥȥern, waȥȥeren
accusative	ein	daȥ	waȥȥer	diu	waȥȥer

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Wasser, Wâser

  Alsatian: Wasser, Wâsser, Wàser

  Italian Walser: wasser, wàsser

• Bavarian: Wåsser, Wossa

  Cimbrian: bassar, bazzar (Luserna, Tredici Comuni)

  Gottscheerish: boßər, bàsser

  Mòcheno: bòsser

  Udinese: bosser, bosar, bòsser

• Central Franconian: Wasser, Waßer

  Hunsrik: Wasser, waser

  Transylvanian Saxon: Wåsser

• East Central German:

  Silesian East Central German: Woasser, Wosser, Wasser

  Upper Saxon German: Wassor

• German: Wasser
  • Unserdeutsch: Wasser
• Luxembourgish: Waasser
• Rhine Franconian: Wasser

  Hessian: Wassä

  Pennsylvania German: Wasser

• Vilamovian: wosser, woser
• Yiddish: וואַסער (vaser)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “waȥȥer”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)