geezern.

1885 ‘Corin’ Truth about Stage 16 If we wake up the old geezers we shall get notice to quit without compensation..The two geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife.

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Geezer, a mummer; and hence any grotesque or queer character.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 17 Aug. 2/3 So an obliging firm of Liverpool solicitors, like the nice old geeser in the song, have just assured him.

1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 248/2 Geezer, a fellow.

1910 Punch 5 Oct. 243 'Old yer blooming rah, an' give the old geyser [sc. a lady singer] a charnst, cawn't yer?

1915 Dial. Notes 4 201 The old geezer wouldn't let us play ball in his pasture.

1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. i. 74 You're a grand little geezer.

1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. ii. 90 A geezer can't have an alibi for every minute of the day.

1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock iv. ii. 267 I'll tell you a thing or two, you bloody little geezer.

1958 J. Symons Gigantic Shadow vii. 37 There's a geezer I know named Twisty Dodds, kind of a small-time crook you might call him.

1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights i. 23 If people can't be barons with out going around punching little geezers up in the air.

1960 News Chron. 16 Feb. 6 Hundreds more geezers were taking their birds to ‘The Hostage’ and ‘Make me an Offer’.

1965 New Statesman 14 May 760/2 I have my hands full with his china who is a big geezer of about 14 stone.