词组 | gutser |
释义 | gutser noun 1 a person who eats a great deal NEW ZEALAND, 1998. 2 a heavy fall. Usually in the phrase 'come a gutser'. Variants include 'gutzer' and 'gusta' AUSTRALIA, 1918.► come a gutserto come undone; to fail miserably AUSTRALIA, 1918 come a gutser1. slang To fall down. Primarily heard in Australia. These shoes are too big and caused me to come a gutser as I was walking down the street. 2. slang To fail. Primarily heard in Australia. Once heralded as a future star of the tech world, Shane came a gutser when his product proved to be a dud. come a gutsersuffer a failure or defeat. informalGutser (also spelled gutzer ) is explained in Fraser and Gibbons' Soldier and Sailor Words ( 1925 ) as ‘pre-war slang, and an old term among Scottish boys for falling flat on the water in diving, instead of making a clean header’. In air-force slang come (or fetch) a gutser meant ‘crash’. |
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