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wowser
[ wou-zer ]
noun
, Australia and New Zealand.
- an excessively puritanical person.
wowser
/ ˈwaʊzə /
noun
- a fanatically puritanical person
- a teetotaller
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wowser1
First recorded in 1895–1900; origin uncertain
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wowser1
C20: from English dialect wow to whine, complain
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Example Sentences
He's a real wowser at one class of knowledge, and doesn't know spit about the others.
From Project Gutenberg
Oxford has made Ginger into a cock-eyed wowser, and Cambridge has turned Beefy into a base-ball looney.
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