wowser

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الإنجليزية - التركية
{i} tutucu [avus.]
{i} oyunbozan [avus.]
{i} içkiye tövbe eden [avus.]
tutucu
menfur şekilde katı kuralcı
içkiye tövbe eden
oyunbozan
(Argo) son derece muhafazakar kimse
الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
A person with a strong moral views for temperance, abstinence, etc, and who promotes them generally or in particular seeks to impose them on other people
A lout or similar disruptive person
{i} killjoy, spoilsport (Slang); person considered annoyingly puritanical (used in Australia and New Zealand)
wowser

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    wow·ser

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    [ 'wau-z&r ] (noun.) 1899. John Norton, an early enemy of wowsers (temperance sense), claimed it to be an acronym for "We Only Want Social Evils Remedied", but that's 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, Australian Folklore, Lansdowne Press, 1970, reprint 1979 ISBN 0-7018-1309-1, under "Wowser", page 568.)
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