wizzo
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom the colloquial pronunciation of WSO (“weapon systems officer”).
Noun
editwizzo (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
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *witō.
Noun
editwizzo m
Declension
editDeclension of wizzo (masculine n-stem)
References
edit- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
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