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wowser

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A lout or similar disruptive person. 2 (context Australia New Zealand derogatory English) One with strong moral views against excessive consumption of alcohol, gambling, pornography, etc., who seeks to promulgate those views. 3 (alternative form of wowzer English)

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Wowser
"Wowsers!" is also a signature expression used by the cartoon character Inspector Gadget.

Wowser is a term that originated as a slang expression; it is most commonly heard in Australian and New Zealand English. "Wowser" refers to a person who seeks to deprive others of behaviour deemed to be immoral or "sinful".

Wowser (TV series)

is an anime based on the Belgian cartoon comic strip Cubitus. It consisted of 52 two-part episodes the running time of 20 minutes in total, and it originally aired from 5 April 1988 to 27 March 1989.

Usage examples of "wowser".

She was wonderfully wowser to all points of the compass, and probably some others too.

Army, Honest John, Hound Dog, Wowser notwithstanding, psychological warfare and nerve gas notwithstanding, falls back at onrush of puppet people.

Army, they are invincible, Honest John is a joke, Hound Dog malfunctions, Wowser detonates on launching pad, flower smell stronger and sweeter, are they really growing underneath our feet, is time in truth passing?

There was nothing he neglected that was useful to be known-- And he even studied Wowsers, who had no creed of his own.

The vaulting viruses, all those wowsers and doozies and lulus, are of course increasingly numerous but they seem to have simmered down a good deal.

And it's going to be a shame to abort his scheme because it's a wowser for a creature as mentally handicapped as a centaur.

The wowsers won’t get enough votes to send Kinross dry because the Chinese don’t have a vote and the town’s whites like their liquor too much.

Although the wowsers pretend that men come to ruin through drink and women, the real truth of the matter is that more men are ruined by the purchase of expensive domestic junk than in any other way.

I gather that the Wee Wowser was told that what looked like soul-saving to him looked much like infant impudence to his father, and his membership in the Wee Wowsers terminated at that instant.