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Jimmy Woodser

Jimmy Woodser noun: a man who drinks alone.

Noun

Jimmy Woodser (plural Jimmy Woodsers)

  1. (Australia, informal) A man who drinks alone.
    • “What did you follow him below that time for, Mitchell?” I asked presently, for want of something better to say.
      Mitchell looked at me out of the corners of his eyes.
      “I wanted to score a drink!” he said. “I thought he wanted one and wouldn′t like to be a Jimmy Woodser.”1900, Henry Lawson, They Wait on the Wharf in Black, in Over the Sliprails, Gutenberg eBook #1313
    • Not a bird in sight until I almost stepped on a solitary bleary eyed jimmy woodser pigeon staring or drinking at an oily puddle.1968, Geoffrey Dutton, Maxwell Henley Harris, editors, The Vital Decade: Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters, page 248
  2. (Australia, informal) A drink consumed alone.
    • THERE WAS a man in a pub — a long, dark, scowling, string-bellied sort of joker drinking Jimmy Woodsers of rum and water — and his message, suitably censored, was this: he didn′t much care what beer-brokers did to, or with, their frightful brewery broth.1988, The Bulletin, numbers 5602-5608, page 109

Forms of Jimmy Woodser

pluralJimmy Woodsers

Origin of Jimmy Woodser

From a poem by Barcroft Boake, published in The Bulletin of 7 May 1892, about a fictional Jimmy Wood from Britain who is determined to end the practice of shouting (buying rounds of drinks for one′s group of mates). : One man one liquor! though I have to die A martyr to my faith, that′s Jimmy Wood, sir. Another mooted derivation is the Sydney slang term Johnny Warder (“a man who tries to cadge drinks”), after the similarly eponymous John Ward, a Sydney publican.

Questions about Jimmy Woodser

What does Jimmy Woodser mean?
Jimmy Woodser means a man who drinks alone.
What part of speech is Jimmy Woodser?
Jimmy Woodser is a noun.
What is the plural of Jimmy Woodser?
The plural of Jimmy Woodser is Jimmy Woodsers.

Words near Jimmy Woodser in the dictionary

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  2. Jimmy Riddle
  3. Jimmy Riddles
  4. Jimmy the One
  5. jimmy up
  6. Jimmy Woodser
  7. Jimmy Woodsers
  8. jimmy-proof
  9. jimmying
  10. jimmying up
  11. jimmyproof

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