What's the difference between geez and geezer?

Geez


Definition:

  • (n.) The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or people. See Ethiopic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Terry said he asked him: "'What happened out there, geez?
  • (2) The results of cytochemical and electron-microscopic examinations show a similarity for age- and season-dependent changes in hormone secretion of the adenohypophysial gonadotropocytes and the arcuate nucleus function of the hypothalamus in geeze.
  • (3) For instance, we have this one entitled "Marv" from Renee Smith: Geez, maybe Marv could suit up and play for the Heat.
  • (4) The urban people saying: ‘Well, geez, the farmers should do more,’ and the farmers saying: ‘You’re growing ornamental; we’re growing food, we’re providing jobs,’” she said.

Geezer


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I know Richard, I know Tony, we are all old geezers, but I swear I haven’t talked once to them about it,” he told the Guardian while campaigning for the Lib Dems in the Richmond byelection.
  • (2) Ozzy Osbourne joined fellow sexagenarians Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward at the venue where the band made their Los Angeles debut in 1970, to address a large, black-t-shirt-clad crowd.
  • (3) In a way, the Falkirk row became so prominent because it fitted a narrative the press already likes to push when it comes to trade unions: they're full of dodgy geezers.
  • (4) Once you’ve decided, you believe in it strongly, you tell your friends and family, and you’re more likely to go out and vote.” By contrast, the remain line he hears from “blokes in the bar – local businessmen, geezers running building companies, doing quite well” is: “‘Nigel, we kind of get the stuff about sovereignty and controlling our borders.
  • (5) "He's amazing, that geezer," he says, his voice betraying his Cornish roots as well as traces of cockney.
  • (6) As the tagline – "May the best man live" – suggests, it's basically the same old flick with the same old schtick: the Stath tops baddies, boffs toffs (he's a one-man manifesto for geezer supremacy), and cops off with a blondie.
  • (7) There is a word that people overuse – authentic – but he is a straight geezer.
  • (8) The new members Corbyn attracted to the party helped him win the candidacy and he does not want to turn his back on them – or Corbyn – who he describes as “a straight geezer”.
  • (9) What a geezer.” The former pupil at the Somerset boarding school, which charges fees of £30,000 a year, said: “They were ... only about four or five people but they made themselves heard.
  • (10) Instead of Terry's Old Geezers and Gals, his ­audience has now been labelled Wogan's Ageing Sunday Participants, or Wasps.
  • (11) "I look at what Jamie Oliver did; Jamie Oliver does not need to be trawling round schools in Britain - the geezer's a multi-millionnaire.
  • (12) And here he is again diving in to Tiote's cross from the left to head for goal and the full back Coentrao gets his fluffed blond 1980s pop-geezer highlights to the ball and bouffants it clear.
  • (13) What a geezer.” Parsons has since taken down his Instagram account, as well as his Facebook and Twitter profiles, after he was named by a number of sources as appearing in the video published by the Guardian on Tuesday .
  • (14) You ain’t a fat bald geezer with a chain!” A schoolchild shouted: 'You ain’t no mayor!
  • (15) As it turns out, the God of Fuck and post-Britpop’s most famous crack smoker had very little on some of our booked-for-lolz, avuncular old geezers in terms of genuine evil.
  • (16) Did he ever think of himself as a dodgy geezer, a bit of an Arthur Daley ?
  • (17) The jubilation of topless, pear-shaped West Ham geezers running on the pitch as we win in extra time against our ultimate rival – Millwall .
  • (18) Wogan's fans, known as Togs – Terry's Old Geezers and Gals – have been particularly vociferous against Evans since he took over the show in January.
  • (19) They came out to support him and didn’t care if he knocked out some fat geezer who never stood a chance.
  • (20) And the entire framing device – as Tonto recalls the Lone Ranger in old age in 1933 San Francisco – is a straight lift from Little Big Man's 121-year-old Jack Crabb, right down to the geezer makeup.

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