Meanings
plural Portugeezers
- UKderogatoryslangsometimesA Portuguese person.
Here he established trading posts, and in less than a year or so all the Portugeezers were eating chutney on their beefsteaks, and calling it an Indian meal.
1904, Frank C. Voorhies, Twisted History, G. W. Dillingham Company, page 382 more examples
For a while Redknapp tried to pair Dowie, who possessed all the speed of a steamroller, with the sublimely fast Portugeezer Hugo Porfirio — Porfirio's permanent expression of bemusement and sometimes downright amazement at his strike partner is still vivid.
2002, Pete May, West Ham: Irons in the Soul, Mainstream Publishing Company, →ISBNThis liberating relinquishing of control seemed to chill everybody right out – the Germans took to canoodling and beachcombing, the Portugeezer shared out the last of his biscuits, I spent a couple of hours listening to the waves then idly chatting with the Belgians about Joey Dunlop and Manx Nortons.
2008, Dan Walsh, Endless Horizon: A Very Messy Motorcycle Journey Around the World, Motorbooks, published 2009, →ISBN, page 25
Origin
Blend of Portuguese + geezer.
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