wazzer
English edit
Noun edit
wazzer (plural wazzers)
- (UK, derogatory) A stupid or annoying person; a wazzock.
Middle High German edit
Etymology edit
From Old High German wazzar, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of *wódr̥.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
waȥȥer n
Declension edit
Declension of waȥȥer (neuter, a-stem)
Descendants edit
- Alemannic German: Wasser, Wâser
- Bavarian: Wåsser, Wossa
- Central Franconian: Wasser, Waßer
- East Central German:
- German: Wasser
- Unserdeutsch: Wasser
- Luxembourgish: Waasser
- Rhine Franconian: Wasser
- Vilamovian: wosser, woser
- Yiddish: וואַסער (vaser)
References edit
- Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “waȥȥer”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel