Jimmy Woodser

Definitions

1. A man who drinks alone.
   Australia, informal
2. A drink consumed alone.
   Australia, informal

Examples

“1900, Henry Lawson, They Wait⟳ on the Wharf in Black, in Over the Sliprails, Gutenberg eBook #1313, “What did you follow⟳ him below that time for, Mitchell?” I asked presently, for want⟳ of something better to say⟳. Mitchell looked at me out of the corners of his eyes. “I wanted to score⟳ a drink⟳!” he said. “I thought he wanted one and wouldn′t like⟳ to be a Jimmy Woodser.””

“Not a bird in sight until I almost stepped on a solitary bleary eyed jimmy woodser pigeon staring or drinking at an oily puddle.”

“THERE WAS a man in a pub — a long, dark, scowling, string-bellied sort⟳ of joker drinking Jimmy Woodsers of rum and water — and his message, suitably censored, was this: he didn′t much care what beer-brokers did to, or with, their frightful brewery broth.”

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