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goozer

Syllables: gooz·erUK/ˈɡuːzə/US/ˈɡuzɚ/

goozer noun: a lowlife, a despised person.

Noun

goozer (plural goozers)

  1. (slang) A lowlife, a despised person.
    • 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
    • No goozer or floater need apply.1918, The American Artisan, volume 75, number 2
  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

Verb

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

  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 of goozer

Noun
pluralgoozers
Verb
third-person singular presentgoozers
present participlegoozering
past participlegoozered
pastgoozered

Words that rhyme with goozer

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Questions about goozer

What does goozer mean?
Goozer means a lowlife, a despised person.
What part of speech is goozer?
Goozer can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce goozer?
Goozer is pronounced /ˈɡuːzə/ (UK).
What is the plural of goozer?
The plural of goozer is goozers.

Words near goozer in the dictionary

  1. gootchie-gootchie-goo
  2. Gootee
  3. Gootees
  4. Gootnick
  5. gooware
  6. goozer
  7. Goozerat
  8. goozered
  9. goozering
  10. goozers
  11. goozle

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