goozer

plural goozers

1. slangA lowlife, a despised person.

   No goozer or floater need apply.

   1918, The American Artisan, volume 75, number 2

   2 more examples

   He's got a tongue like a tanner's vat, that goozer. Wants a lump o' lead in 'is baskit 'e does.

   1913, Gilbert Parker, “At Brinkwort’s Farm”, in The Judgment House […], uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC, book IV, page 428

   But I don't believe any preacher should be riding on the coupling pole while some old goozer of a deacon or Jezebel sits on the front seat — that's his place, let him ride on the front seat and drive the team.

   1938, John Frank Norris, Inside History of First Baptist Church, Fort Worth and Temple Baptist Church, Detroit

2. UKslangA kiss, a smooch.

   And then there's the visiting, with a million mad cartrips all around Dublin to the uncles and aunties who, right up until your eighteenth birthday, always seek you out by the peanut bowls and the 7-Up, and give you a pressie and a big goozer on the cheek for your troubles.

   2013, Kevin Maher, The Fields, →ISBN

present singular third person goozers · participle present goozering · participle past goozered · past goozered

1. UKslangtransitiveTo kiss.

   So your best bet to win is to spend your money in the boozer. / There you have a chance to win some merry maiden's goozer. / And then begins the greatest, riskiest lottery of your life, / Will the maiden you have goozered be the best choice for a wife?

   2004, Tony Dawson, A to Z of Comical Poems and Jokes, →ISBN