Is the word geezer offensive?

In American slang, geezer almost always refers to an older man and is especially used in the phrase old geezer. In British slang, geezer just refers to any man. In both cases, though, the term is used in a mildly insulting, dismissive way.

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.

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.

UK informal. /ˈɡiː.zər/ us. /ˈɡiː.zɚ/ A man, often old or unusual in some way: a funny old geezer.

In the US, “geyser” is pronounced GUY-zer and has one meaning, a bubbling hot spring that erupts periodically. But in British English, it has two meanings; a “geyser” can be A hot spring or a water heater. And for both senses of the word, most British speakers rhyme it with “geezer.”

What is another word for geezer?

Geezette-A Female Version of a Geezer T-Shirt.

The origin of geezer is an interesting one. It appears to derive from the now obsolete term guiser, meaning someone who walks around in disguise, a performer in a masquerade. So a word that was used in the Middle Ages to refer to mummers (actors in traditional plays without words) has now simply come to mean bloke.

Definition of bloke

Chiefly British, informal. : Man sense 1a(1), fellow sense 4c But he himself was no ordinary bloke.—

Bloke is a slang term for a common man in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The earliest known usage is from the early 19th century, when it was recorded as a London slang term.

Bloke is a slang term for a common man in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The earliest known usage is from the early 19th century, when it was recorded as a London slang term.

Geezer (n.)

Derisive word for an old man, 1885, according to OED a variant of obsolete Cockney guiser “mummer, one wearing a mask or costume as part of a performance” (late 15c.; see guise).

Grandfather. patriarch. the patriarch of the clan. Old age pensioner.

: A person with old-fashioned ideas —usually used with old.

A coot is an eccentric person, a hag is a mean woman.

Definitions of old codger. used affectionately to refer to An eccentric but amusing old man. synonyms: codger. type of: Methuselah, graybeard, greybeard, old man. a man who is very old.

Word forms: biddies

Countable noun. If someone describes an old woman as an old biddy, They are saying in an unkind and impolite way that they think she is silly or unpleasant. [informal, disapproval] They were gossiping like two old biddies in a tearoom.

Two bob (uncountable) (UK, Australia, obsolete) Two shillings; a florin. (Australia, slang) A 20-cent coin. (idiomatic, UK, Australia, often attributive) A trivially small value.

[count] informal. 1. chiefly British : A boy or young man. a charming young lad. Life was hard when I was a lad.

Definition of bonnet

(Entry 1 of 2) 1a(1) chiefly Scotland : a man’s or boy’s cap. (2) : a brimless Scottish cap of seamless woolen fabric — compare tam-o’-shanter sense 2. b : a cloth or straw hat tied under the chin and worn by women and children. 2a British : An automobile hood.