geezer: [19] Originally, a geezer seems to have been ‘someone who went around in disguise’. The word probably represents a dialectal pronunciation of the now obsolete guiser ‘someone wearing a masquerade as part of a performance, mummer’. This was a derivative of guise [13], which, together with disguise [14], goes back ultimately to prehistoric Germanic *wīsōn, ancestor of archaic English wise ‘manner’. => disguise, guise, wise
geezer (n.)
derisive word for an old man, 1885, according to OED a variant of obsolete Cockney guiser "mummer" (late 15c.; see guise).
雙語例句
1. Some geezer called Danny did it.
這事是個叫丹尼的家伙干的。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. The old geezer wouldn't let them play ball in his pasture.
這老家伙不讓他們在他的牧場上打球.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. He is a nice geezer, but a little talkative.
他這怪老頭,人挺不錯的, 就是有點多嘴多舌.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. With that old geezer?
跟那怪老頭呀?
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. Fortunately, there is no one nearby except an old geezer who never dwarf.