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Give it some wazzer.

English translation: Put some force/effort into it

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English term or phrase:Give it some wazzer.
Selected answer:Put some force/effort into it
Entered by: Robert Janiak

09:54 Apr 4, 2019
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / The Detectives TV Series, Golf, Old Slang(?), UK
English term or phrase: Give it some wazzer.
- One.
- What do you mean, one?

- That was one. This'll be a second.
- That was a practice swing.

Practice swing? Yeah. Huh!
Go on. Give it some wazzer.

- Two.
- That's not two. That's one.
Robert Janiak
Poland
Local time: 10:22
Put some force/effort into it
Explanation:
Hi Robert,

I am not sure that this is specific golf slang, more a variation on an English slang term "Give it some welly!", encouraging a person to put more force or effort into the activity they are carrying out. This seems to fit the context but this is just an opening suggestion.

Kind regards,

Selected response from:

Sara Noss
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:22
Grading comment
Thank you all for your help.
As I suspected, although Google not lead me to the 2nd idiom.

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3 +4Put some force/effort into it
Sara Noss


  

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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
give it some wazzer.
Put some force/effort into it


Explanation:
Hi Robert,

I am not sure that this is specific golf slang, more a variation on an English slang term "Give it some welly!", encouraging a person to put more force or effort into the activity they are carrying out. This seems to fit the context but this is just an opening suggestion.

Kind regards,




    Reference: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/welly
Sara Noss
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Grading comment
Thank you all for your help.
As I suspected, although Google not lead me to the 2nd idiom.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jennifer Caisley: I agree completely - this is exactly what I'd say it means!
9 mins
  -> Thank you, Jennifer.
agree  EngIndonesian
11 mins
  -> Thanks, Arika.
agree  Charles Davis: I think you're probably right about "welly". "-azzer" is used like this (Bazzer for Barry, Gazza for Paul Gascoigne...).
2 hrs
  -> Yes! We have some great red-top inspired suffixes! Thank you.
agree  Tony M
3 days 1 hr
  -> Thank you, Tony!
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