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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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MEESER, n. Also meezer; meiser, mieser, measer (Slg. 1862 D. Taylor Poems 33). Sc. forms and usages of Eng. miser (Sc. 1825 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) I. 64). Hence meesurly, miserly (Ayr. 1887 J. Service Dr. Duguid 103). [′mi:zər] As in Eng., a miser, a hoarder; specif. in Heriot's School slang: a boy who hoards sweets and other schoolboy treasures without sharing them among his fellows. Comb. meezer pig, miser-, a child's earthenware or porcelain bank (Slk. c.1880; Sh. 1962). See Pig.Edb. 1898 J. Baillie W. Crighton 12:
He's the biggest skech and meiser in the Wark.
