wowser
[ wou-zer ]
nounAustralia and New Zealand.
an excessively puritanical person.
Origin of wowser
1First recorded in 1895–1900; origin uncertain
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How to use wowser in a sentence
You wowsers from Oxford and Cambridge want your blinkers taken off.
John Brown | Captain R. W. Campbell
British Dictionary definitions for wowser
wowser
/ (ˈwaʊzə) /
nounAustralian and NZ slang
a fanatically puritanical person
a teetotaller
Origin of wowser
1C20: from English dialect wow to whine, complain
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