geezer
1) 미국에서 geezer 뜻. 늙은, 특이한 행동을 하는, 혹은 비이성적인 사람, (보통) 남자, 특히 늙은 남자 지칭.
2) British 브리티시. 남자. bloke 평범한 사람. 축구팬 남자얘들. 펍에서 맥주 마시고 노는 남자.
1
US, informal, humorous or mildly disparaging : an odd, eccentric, or unreasonable person (usually a man)
especially : an old man
an old geezer
It may suggest only that the offender is … a geezer perhaps, too old and set in his ways to know what's new in the world.
—Russell Baker
2
British, informal : a man : GUY, BLOKE
… a 23-year-old from Milton who's best described as an ordinary geezer, a Glasgow bloke through and through …
—Jack McGrinder
geezerhood
ˈgē-zər-ˌhu̇d
noun chiefly US, informal
Examples of geezer in a Sentence
a group of old geezers playing cards
Some geezer asked me for a light.
Word History
Etymology
probably alteration of Scots guiser one in disguise
First Known Use
1885, in the meaning defined at sense 2
Time Traveler
The first known use of geezer was in 1885
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2.
‘Geezer,’ the Slang in ‘Too Hot to Handle,’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
Josh St. Clair
April 17, 2020·3 min read
Photo credit: YouTube/Netflix
Photo credit: YouTube/Netflix
From Men's Health
Too Hot to Handle is now streaming on Netflix.
One English contestant, Chloe, often uses the word "geezer."
Here's what the British slang means.
Yes, it sounds like Chloe from Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle—a reality series premised on beautiful people attempting beach-island abstinence—is saying “gazer.”
But she's actually saying “geezer.”
As in, “I just don’t know if he’s a geezer.” Or, “He such a geezer.” Or, “I just want a geezer.” Geezer, geezer, geezer. And after Chloe—from Essex, England—begins going on about geezers, just about every other beautiful person on the series adopts the term. But like, WTF is a geezer?
In America, the slang “geezer” usually refers to an older man. Not quite a pejorative, but also not totally endearing.
So you would be excused for wondering why these young people seem to want sexual geezer relations, which on this side of the pond turns the sentence "I just want a geezer" into something that sounds oddly gold-digger-ish.
But across the British Isles (and that includes the Republic of Ireland, where Cork Gal Nicole also uses the term), “geezer” has a more flexible meaning.
The community-approved slang definition on Urban Dictionary reads: someone who “will be found usually outside a pub with a pint in his hand on match day.”
Secondary translation: a soccer supporter who drinks beer. Tertiary translation: the type of dude who watches sports and consumes alcohol and just about every connotation associated with such a guy who watches sports and consumes alcohol.
축구팬 남자얘들. 펍에서 맥주 마시고 노는 남자.
It’s a distant cousin to the American “bro” (the genus of such species as “frat bro,” “finance bro,” “dude bro,” “bro bro,” and so on).
So a “geezer” is sort of like a British “bro.” However! Chloe concludes that traditional American bro Bryce (who is like a walking pair of boat shoes) is not, in fact, a “geezer.” (And his non-geezerness disqualifies him from Being Attractive to Chloe.)
What makes “geezer” different from “bro” then?
The Book of Chloe says that a “geezer” needs to have good “banter” (“good bantz,” if you will). Banter is a kind of playful, flirty, verbal jousting. In the anglophone world, banter is difficult to pull off, apparently, if you speak American. And Chloe immediately exchanges bro Bryce for geezer Kori (from the U.K.).
But can a bro also have banter? And if a bro has good bantz, is he then a geezer? Is banter a necessary or a sufficient condition to being a geezer? (For instance, can one have good bantz but not be a geezer? Or if one has good bantz are they necessarily a geezer?) The Book of Chloe is silent.
Also Kori just has better abs. So there’s that.
