geezer

The origin of geezer is an interesting one. It appears to derive from the now obsolete term guiser, meaning someone who walks around in disguise, a performer in a masquerade. So a word that was used in the Middle Ages to refer to mummers (actors in traditional plays without words) has now simply come to mean bloke.

Nowadays Geezer is commonly used to refer to any man whose name you don’t know, as in ‘I was chatting to a couple of geezers in the pub last night’. If someone is a geezer, they may also be overtly masculine and possibly a down-to-earth, plain-speaking type.

The word given to a cockney male (East Londoner) who likes drinking, football, and violence, preferably all at the same time. Wants to be the typical cockney 'jack the lad'. Has a good old piss up down the local pub, has a kebab or curry, then goes home. Works in manual labour job, builder, scaffolding, plumber and is generally a good bloke, as long as you support his football team.

 A typical geezer is a man who dabbles in a bit of illegit business. Also with possible links to organised crime. Generally of white skin colour. They're basically like a better meaner version of a Chav and not bad people to know as long as you just prove your a 'geezer'.

Sorted me ol' mucker...