1885. Truth about the Stage, p. 16. If we wake up the old geezers we shall get notice to quit without compensation.
1886. Broadside Ballad, ‘Her Mother’s Got the Hump.’ This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough—well, as rough as her family, and they’re rough ’uns.
1890. A. Chevalier, ‘Knocked ’Em in the Old Kent Road.’ Nice old geezer with a nasty cough.
1892. Anstey, Voces Populi, p. 82. Our old geeser’s perdoocin’ the custimary amount o’ sensation.
Gelding, subs. (old).—A eunuch.
1380. Wycliffe, Trans. of the Bible, Acts viii. 39. … the spirit of the Lord ravysched Filip, and the geldynge say him no more.
1659. Torriano, Vocabolario, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
to enter for the geldings’ stakes, verb. phr. (old).—To castrate a man; also used to describe a eunuch.