wazzer

wazzer (plural wazzers)

1. (UK, derogatory) A stupid or annoying person; a wazzock.
   • 2003, Darracq Shawe, “Where's the morning crew?”, in uk.local.bristol (Usenet):

     Can anyone tell me what happened to the Morning crew on GWR? I go away for a bit and when I come back there ^[sic] gone and replaced by a pair of wazzers!

From Old High German wazzar, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of *wódr̥.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈwasːər/

waȥȥer n

1. water

• Alemannic German: Wasser, Wâser

  Alsatian: Wasser, Wâsser, Wàser

  Italian Walser: wasser, wàsser

• Bavarian: Wåsser, Wossa

  Cimbrian: bassar, bazzar (Luserna, Tredici Comuni)

  Gottscheerish: boßər, bàsser

  Mòcheno: bòsser

  Udinese: bosser, bosar, bòsser

• Central Franconian: Wasser, Waßer
  • Hunsrik: Wasser
  • Luxembourgish: Waasser
  • Transylvanian Saxon: Wåsser, Wosser (Sibiu), Wauesser (Brașov)
• East Central German:

  Silesian East Central German: Woasser, Wosser, Wasser

  Upper Saxon German: Wassor

• German: Wasser
  • Unserdeutsch: Wasser
• Rhine Franconian: Wasser

  Hessian: Wassä

  Pennsylvania German: Wasser

• Vilamovian: wosser, woser
• Yiddish: וואַסער (vaser)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “waȥȥer”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)