Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
touser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A familiar name for a dog.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hi towser, the hairy man as in that scene from the 40 year old virgin?
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Now I held king and queen, being three — a natural towser, making fifteen — and tiddy, nineteen.
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Eh? And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and, by Jesus, he near throttled him.
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Then he starts hauling and mauling and talking to him in Irish and the old towser growling, letting on to answer, like a duet in the opera.
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Her mouth was rose-red and tolerable small, but always ready for a smile, and she was a slim, active creature, a towser for work, yet full of the joy of life and ready enough for a mite of pleasure if it came her way.
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Then he starts hauling and mauling and talking to him in Irish and the old towser growling, letting on to answer, like a duet in the opera.
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Eh? And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and, by Jesus, he near throttled him.
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Cruelty afflicts poor towser with hunger, overworks the gentle horse and severely goads the patient
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Now I held king and queen, being three -- a natural towser, making fifteen -- and tiddy, nineteen.
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Koala Bear: towser, interesting article and somewhat surprised that Japan have put a target deadline to win the 2050 World Cup ..
brtom commented on the word towser
"And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and, by Jesus, he near throttled him."
Joyce, Ulysses, 12
January 13, 2007
sionnach commented on the word towser
OED: towser, -zer v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to worry as a dog does.
c1680 Hickeringill Hist. Whiggism i. Wks. 1716 I. 37 If they get a piece of a Text by the end..they do so tear it, and towze it, and towzer it..that they lose themselves.
October 28, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word towser
A coarse apron worn by maid-servants in working. - an old provincial term from Devonshire, recorded in Grose's 1787 A Provincial Glossary.
May 3, 2011
Gammerstang commented on the word towser
(noun) - A rude, violent person, who pulls others about; whence the common name for a dog who is a good ratter. --Charles Mackay's Lost Beauties of the English Language, 1874
February 11, 2018