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From UK dialect. In the pro-temperance sense, Australian from early 1900s.
John Norton, an early enemy of wowsers (temperance sense), claimed it to be an acronym for "We Only Want Social Evils Remedied", but that is likely a folk etymology.
A story has it that gospellers in the streets of Clunes, Victoria in the 1870s were called rousers but one of the town councillors had a speech impediment and couldn't pronounce his "R"s, thus giving wowser. (Reference: Bill Wannan, 豪州用法 Folklore, Lansdowne Press, 1970, reprint 1979 →ISBN, under "Wowser", page 568.)
名詞
wowser (複数形 wowsers)
- (obsolete) A lout or similar disruptive person.
- (Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) One with strong moral views against excessive consumption of alcohol, gambling, pornography, etc., who seeks to promulgate those views.
- 1950, Neville Shute, A Town Like Alice, London: The Reprint Society, 1952, Chapter 9, p. 259,[1]
- 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 65
- As for the rest, the pay is not bad, coming as it does from the pockets of the three local warlords who hired me: two graziers, one of whom is also a terrible wowser (everyone calls him 'Mr Prophet', though I call him - privately, of course - Mr Brimstone, または Old Blood-and-Thunderguts); the third is the owner of the pub.
- 1999, Anna E. Blainey, The prohibition and total abstinence movement in Australia, 1880 - 1910, Robert Dare (editor), Food, Power and Community, page 142,
- 2010, Robert Cettl, Offensive to a Reasonable Adult: Film Censorship and Classification in 'Secular' Australia, page 43,
同意語
- (one who promotes abstinence, etc.): killjoy, moral crusader, party pooper, prude, spoilsport
派生語
- wowserdom
- wowserian
- wowserish
- wowserism
- wowsery
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