Wowser vs Null - What's the difference?
wowser | null |
(obsolete) A lout or similar disruptive person.
(Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) One with strong moral views against excessive consumption of alcohol, gambling, pornography, etc., who seeks to promulgate those views.
* 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 65
* 1999 , Anna E. Blainey, The prohibition and total abstinence movement in Australia, 1880 - 1910'', Robert Dare (editor), ''Food, Power and Community ,
* 2010 , Robert Cettl, Offensive to a Reasonable Adult: Film Censorship and Classification in 'Secular' Australia ,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between wowser and null
is that wowser is (obsolete) a lout or similar disruptive person while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.wowser
English
(wikipedia wowser)Noun
(en noun)- As for the rest, the pay is not bad, coming as it does from the pockets of the three local warlords who hired me: two graziers, one of whom is also a terrible wowser (everyone calls him 'Mr Prophet', though I call him - privately, of course - Mr Brimstone, or Old Blood-and-Thunderguts); the third is the owner of the pub.
page 142,
- When they have paid attention to temperance advocates they have tended to dismiss them as ‘wowsers ’ or ‘puritans’ intent on suppressing pleasure.
page 43,
- Quite simply, to a wowser , adults should not be allowed to see, hear and read as they wished, but should only be allowed to see hear and read that which fully conforms to Australia's Christian heritage.
Synonyms
* killjoy, moral crusader, party pooper, prude, spoilsportSee also
* wowsers (interjection) * wowzer * straight edgeReferences
*Australian National Dictionary Centre: Home » Australian words » Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms » W
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.