mizzler
English
editEtymology
editPresumably mizzle + -er, from mizzle (“abscond, scram, flee”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmizzler (plural mizzlers)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A person who is clever at effecting an escape, or getting out of a difficulty.
- (Australia, slang, rare) A complainer; a grumbler; a moaner.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
- “mizzler, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
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