Best definition for wowser?

How best to describe the welsh wowser?

‘A person who is obnoxious or annoying to the community or who is in some way disruptive’

to wit, a mealy-mouthed hypocrite, a pious prude, one who condemns or seeks to curtail the pleasures of others or who works to have his or her own rigid morality enforced on all)

A pernickety kind of person, always objecting to everybody else who does not agree with him; he will interfere with the pleasures and enjoyments of others; thinks that he alone has the right conception of right conduct, and a monopoly of the narrow way to paradise....’

The Australian writer C.J. Dennis defined it thus: 'Wowser: an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder'.

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Originally Posted by kingwilly

welsh wowser

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why do they have to be welsh? what about women? they can be damp blankets too more often than not! or i am i just being gender bias

Fred Nile!!!!

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Originally Posted by Lily

Fred Nile!!!!

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Ah, the dear Reverend . . . yes, a wowser

Recalling those years in NZ, this term was used almost in rhetorical reverence. Even sarcastic, if not the older literal usage {not the 'lout' or disruptive prick}. But the more evolved definition: Temperate uptight intolerant Calvinist Kunt. NZ is more likely to have it's share of wowsers than so Oz....still known to be a wee bit Victorian {??}.

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Originally Posted by nedwalk

why do they have to be welsh?

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think he's talking bout JJ.

Someone who posts a picture of the sky in the "Where in the World ?" thread, then disappears for 12 hours.

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Originally Posted by Begbie

Someone who posts a picture of the sky in the "Where in the World ?" thread, then disappears for 12 hours.

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:rofl: