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hizzoner

hizzoner noun: any mayor.

Noun

hizzoner (plural hizzoners)

  1. (humorous, informal, often) Any mayor
    • Mike asked nothing in return for his generosity, but when election day came up, the contending candidates for mayor both withdrew and the villagers swarmed to the polls to elect Mike Colikas by a vote of 2,145 to 2.1955 January 3, “Hizzoner the Heelobowie”, in Time
    • He's the mayor's favorite golf partner. Once I had to deliver an envelope to hizzoner at the Bel-Air Country Club, and he introduced me to Sturmack.1998, Stuart Woods, Swimming to Catalina, HarperCollins, page 103

Proper noun capitalized: Hizzoner

Hizzoner

  1. (US, pronunciation-spelling, slang) Eye dialect spelling of His Honor, the mayor, especially of a large city.
    • 1930, John Bright, Hizzoner Big Bill Thompson: An Idyll of Chicago, [book title].
    • Minnesota: Meet Hizzoner the Mayor... Canon... would go through an elaborate bowing-and-scraping routine as he addressed Hizzoner the Mayor.1991, Max M. Kampelman, Entering New Worlds: The Memoirs of a Private Man in Public Life, page 56

Forms of hizzoner

pluralhizzoners

Origin of hizzoner

From his honor.

Questions about hizzoner

What does hizzoner mean?
Hizzoner means any mayor.
What part of speech is hizzoner?
Hizzoner can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of hizzoner?
The plural of hizzoner is hizzoners.

Words near hizzoner in the dictionary

  1. hizzie
  2. hizzies
  3. hizzing
  4. hizzle
  5. hizzles
  6. hizzoner
  7. hizzoners
  8. hizzouse
  9. hizzouses
  10. hizzy
  11. hiärneite

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