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towzer

towzer is the alternative form of touser.

Meaning of touser

Noun

touser (plural tousers)

  1. One who or that which touses.
  2. (Cornwall, Devon, dialectal) A large coarse apron.
    • He [a correspondent] continues:—‘[‘]If you were in Buryan Church-town this evening, you might probably hear Betty Trenoweth say, ‘I ’ll take off my touser, [toute serve,] and run up to Janey Angwins to cousey [causer] a spell; there ’s a lot of boys gone in there, so there ’ll be a grand courant...1865, Robert Hunt, “Peculiar Words and Phrases”, in Popular Romances of the West of England; or, The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall, 2nd series, London: John Camden Hotten...

Proper noun capitalized: Towzer

Towzer

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Towser.

Forms of towzer

pluraltowzers

Origin of towzer

From towze + -er.

From towzer.

Questions about towzer

What is towzer the alternative form of?
Towzer is the alternative form of touser.
What part of speech is towzer?
Towzer is a proper noun.

Words near towzer in the dictionary

  1. towtrucks
  2. towy
  3. Towyn
  4. towze
  5. towzed
  6. towzer
  7. towzers
  8. towzery gang
  9. towzery gangs
  10. towzes
  11. towzier

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: towzer (page history and authors); Towzer (page history and authors); touser (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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