Wowser

Word WOWSER
Character 6
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Pronunciations /ˈwaʊzə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Wowser"

What do we mean by wowser?

A person regarded as obnoxiously puritanical. noun

A person with a strong moral views for temperance, abstinence, etc, and who promotes them generally or in particular seeks to impose them on other people. noun

A lout or similar disruptive person. noun

A lout or similar disruptive person.

One with strong moral views against excessive consumption of alcohol, gambling, pornography, etc., who seeks to promulgate those views.

In Australia, it is a derogatory word denoting a person who saps all the fun out of any given situation. Derived from the temperance movement in Australia and New Zealand at the turn of the C20th, when it was hurled as an accusation towards conservative teetotallers who were too prim and proper to relax and socialise, it has become a more generic term that can be assigned to any straight bore lacking a sense of humour, especially petty bureaucrats and Aussies politicians. Urban Dictionary

A term used to describe a teetoller who wants to ban alcohol consumtion, The term originated in the early 1900s by hotel owners and patrons to describe members of the Womans Christian League in both Australia and New Zealand who campaigned for temperance and prohibition but narrowly failed in nurturing the latter in both countries. Urban Dictionary

Name for someone that does not what to get in trouble. OR they do not want to do anything harmful or dangerous so they stay away from it. Someone who does not do anything fun. Sometimes; A goody two shoes. Urban Dictionary

Originaly from the movie/show "Inspecter gadget", it would be Inspecter Gadget's word when he would solve a clue or something very hard. Just like jinkies from scooby doo. This word can have two meanings, one for surprise or shock and the other as a sexual slang word for sperm. This word is rarely used in any case. Its mostly made fun of or to crack jokes with. Urban Dictionary

Excited. Realizing how you feel. Inspector Gadget catch phrase. Urban Dictionary

A word used when somebody is suprised in a positive way, it is known from inspecter gadget. Urban Dictionary

Wow! Ahh! Whoa! Scary! Urban Dictionary

When you get told some shit you already knew or just a cool way to say wow .Btw I like saying wowsers cause it annoys my friends Urban Dictionary

Australian slang used to describe someone who is considered to be not fun, i.e. overcomplicates matters, doesn't drink an amount of alcohol deemed socially appropriate, disagrees with the sentiments of a group. Specifically the term is likely to be applied to a man who is viewed to be judging the morals of his accusers and/or setting himself apart as morally "better" than others. It's pretty dated, but not entirely out of use. Australians very much like to believe that we are a classless society. Therefore, depending on context, "wowser" could be more offensive than well-known swear words. Urban Dictionary

Someone who spoils the fun; a goody-two-shoes. Urban Dictionary

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The word "wowser" in example sentences

One, that I was the last person you would call a wowser and secondly, that I'd seen a fair bit of life on my travels with 60

One, that I was the last person you would call a wowser and secondly, that I'd seen a fair bit of life on my travels with 60 Minutes and not too much would shock me.

He said Ms Keneally had upset many in the union ranks with her "wowser" remark when emergency service workers called for the wider adoption of Newcastle's 1am lockout policy at pubs and clubs to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Responding to the suggestion, Ms Keneally said she wouldn't turn NSW into a "wowser" state. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr Overland said he was not a "wowser" and it was also up to local and state governments and its citizens to develop geographic areas in a socially responsible way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was definitely a tease, with only one true 'wowser' action image (that of Kenobi and Qui-Gon leaping to a nearby platform while in combat). ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a simple race-and-chase, "The Adjustment Bureau" succeeds on the purest cinematic level, especially in a wowser of a climactic pursuit that recalls "Inception" in its mind-bending tour through multiple doors of perception. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Vonnegut and the Little Prince appear to be especially popular, and I'm sure the wowser below is not the only Fight Club tattoo walking around out there. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Steve Englehart is writing at this point, and having just come off a couple of mind-blowing stories one where Strange witnesses the beginning of the universe, and another where he recreates the Earth in exact detail after its total destruction, he decides to come up with another wowser. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It would be an engraved invitation to every wowser and shaman in the land to invade Massachusetts and attempt a new lasting ideological colonization therein. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Moreover it is yet another form of "wowser welfare", and is therefore less focused on results and more on spreading lucre among the President's roilsome base of book worshippers and professional virtue-pimps. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But somehow now, the inalienable right to marriage have to be first vetted thru a wowser approved ballot initiative. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So it is no accident that Mitt is making this speech before the usual book-worshipping wowser grandees do expect a warm fuzzy patina of paternal imperialism through-out..truly Mitt and his future masters all know what is best for us all. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What it does create though, is create new opportunities for pandering from wowser beholden political hacks in Washington. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I mean, never mind the morally dubious issue of putting a question of inalienable rights on the ballot where it'll be naught but a target for out of state wowser money and corrupt power worshipping Washington Political Bosses. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Good Ghod but if Jeff could press a button and install a witchburning wowser like Gary Bauer or Pastor John Hagee into an American Pontificate he'd do it without blinking an eye. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then maybe we can get a proper debate about issues important to the residents of the Commonwealth instead of the usual wowser pleasing nonsense from out Governor Romney. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But to put some witchburning wowser on the Court of Appeals, all the rules must bow down! ❋ Unknown (2005)

A staple of the Broadway musical, a grab-you-by-the-throat, foot-stomping, show-stopping, wake-up-any-sleepyheads wowser of a rouser that comes late in the show, but Augie wasn't talking about a musical number now; not at all what he was saying. ❋ Unknown (2004)

[Cool chick]: Coming to the party? Nerd: No, I have to write an essay for [uni]. Cool chick: C'mon, ya wowser! Forget the essay and let's party, mate. Nerd, slowly de-nerdifying: Y'know, you're right. Let me at that party. [Verily]. ❋ Plip-Plop (2008)

Womans Christian League member: alcohol is evil we want it banned Hotel [Patron]: just cos you woman arent allowed to drink in a hotel you cant [ban it], you stupid bunch of [wowsers] ❋ Brother Number One (2004)

Johnny: Hey, were gonna go [egg] [Alex's] house, you wanna come. Max: No, [what if] someone sees us. Johnny: Your such a wowser. ❋ Ima_Beast (2009)

[Wowsers]! Wowsers! I'd never [guess] that. Wowsers your [really stupid]. Damn! I wowsered on my keyboard. I just wowsered all over my hand. Let me wowser all over you. ❋ Matt 159 (2006)

wowsers, [i am] [hungry] ❋ Jason (2003)

[WOWSERS], i can't believe this is happening to me, this is the most [beautifull] [laptop] I've ever seen. ❋ Punica (2009)

As [Sabrannah] walked she slipped on a [ice cube] and yelled,"[Wowsers]!" ❋ Savannah V. (2007)

[Alexa] I just [bought] [a hamburger] Alexa:Wowsers ❋ BeeBunkBoi (2018)

Colin, mate, it's [11 o'clock]. You gonna keep nursing that beer or make a move on [Glenda], ya bloody [wowser]? ❋ Tarago Dave (2019)

Don't invite [Jess] this [Saturday night], she's a [wowser]. ❋ April Sydney (2018)

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