wizzo
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From the colloquial pronunciation of WSO (“weapon systems officer”).
Noun edit
wizzo (plural wizzos)
- (aviation, slang) A weapon systems officer.
- 1993, Andy Evans, Backseat Flyers: Navigation and Weaponry in the Modern Airplane, London: Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, page 72:
- These comments on the latest generation of High-Tech-Attack aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle, come front Captain Mark 'Bones' Wetzel, a senior Wizzo and a Flight Commander with the 334FW, the 'Fighting Eagles', part of the recently formed 4th Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.
- 2013, F. P. Dorchak, Ero: A Novel, Wailing Loon, →ISBN, page 6:
- But his vision had been good enough for the Backseater role, the Navigator, EWO, or Wizzo. As an Electronics Warfare Officer or Weapons Systems Officer he could still fly Gets or heavies), whatever his role finally ended up being upon graduation.
- 2013, David Lyons, Blood Game: A Jock Boucher Thriller, New York, N.Y. […]: Emily Bestler Books, →ISBN, page 8:
- The pilot explained the function and purpose of the screens and monitors and impressive equipment that were the responsibility of weapons systems officers, or "wizzos," as they were called.
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *witō.
Noun edit
wizzo m
Declension edit
Declension of wizzo (masculine n-stem)
References edit
- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014