beezer

plural beezers

1. datedslangnose

   “Now, don’t be turnin’ up that busted beezer of yours so proud an’ haughty.[…]”

   1919, Charles Emmett Van Loan, Taking the Count: Prize Ring Stories, page 183

   3 more examples

   “In der beezer, Casey, slam him in der beezer!” ¶ At the ropes Casey fought back, but was obliged to clinch.

   1913, “Kid Ivanhoe”, in Adventure, volume 7, page 131

   I am paying no attention to them, because they are drinking local ale, and talking loud, and long ago I learn that when a Boston character is engaged in aleing himself up, it is a good idea to let him alone, because the best you can get out of him is maybe a boff on the beezer.

   1937, Damon Runyon, A Piece of Pie

   She had an ink spot on her nose, the result of working on her novel of suspense. It is virtually impossible to write a novel of suspense without getting a certain amount of ink on the beezer. Ask Agatha Christie or anyone.

   1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing

2. datedslanghead

   Beezer, head

   [1937, “Slang: American Slang”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica, 14th edition, volume 20, page 768

   3 more examples

   We were beating up into the wind, when Captain Pray decided to tack, and her concise order to me was “Duck your beezer!” and while I was wondering which part of the boat a beezer was, the boom just missed the top of my head and she remarked, “I told you to duck.”

   1921 July 24, Eleanor Pray, “[Letter home]”, in Birgitta Ingemanson, editor, Letters from Vladivostok, 1894–1930, published 2013, page 98

   “[…] If the hogs ate your beezer with all the phony ideas you’ve got in it, they’d croak!”

   1928, Robert Joyce Tasker, Grimhaven, page 110

   “If you’re mad, go to Lindewiese— / Then be glad, put an old hat on your beezer!”

   1936, Adolf Lorenz, My Life and Work: The Search for a Missing Glove, page 4

plural beezers

1. UKdatedslangA smart person, a bloke.

comparative more beezer · superlative most beezer

1. UKdatedslangExcellent, super.

   We had a beezer time at the party.