goozer

English edit

goozer (plural goozers)

(slang) A lowlife, a despised person.
- 1913, Gilbert Parker, “At Brinkwort’s Farm”, in The Judgment House […], uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC, book IV, page 428:
  He's got a tongue like a tanner's vat, that goozer. Wants a lump o' lead in 'is baskit 'e does.
- 1918, The American Artisan, volume 75, number 2:
  No goozer or floater need apply.
- 1938, John Frank Norris, Inside History of First Baptist Church, Fort Worth and Temple Baptist Church, Detroit:
  But I don't believe any preacher should be riding on the coupling pole while some old goozer of a deacon or Jezebel sits on the front seat — that's his place, let him ride on the front seat and drive the team.
(chiefly British, slang) A kiss, a smooch.
- 2013, Kevin Maher, The Fields, →ISBN:
  And then there's the visiting, with a million mad cartrips all around Dublin to the uncles and aunties who, right up until your eighteenth birthday, always seek you out by the peanut bowls and the 7-Up, and give you a pressie and a big goozer on the cheek for your troubles.

goozer (third-person singular simple present goozers, present participle goozering, simple past and past participle goozered)

(transitive, chiefly British, slang) To kiss.
- 2004, Tony Dawson, A to Z of Comical Poems and Jokes, →ISBN:
  So your best bet to win is to spend your money in the boozer. / There you have a chance to win some merry maiden's goozer. / And then begins the greatest, riskiest lottery of your life, / Will the maiden you have goozered be the best choice for a wife?