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wowserish; wowseristic adjective prudish; puritanical AUSTRALIA, 1906- [A] lot of wowseristic Bible-thumping Boer farmers were only obstructing a Roman occupation of the earth’s surface. — Norman Lindsay, Bohemians at the Bulletin, p. 17, 1965
- — Bill Hornadge, The Ugly Australian, p. 164, 1975
- There were tubs full of crushed ice and bottles of beer on the back veranda. My rather wowserish uncle and aunt had done the right thing by everyone. — Gerald Murnane, Landscape with Landscape, p. 200, 1987
- — Ignatius Jones, The 1992 True Hip Manual, p. 111, 1992
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