English

Noun

Jimmy Woodser ‎(plural Jimmy Woodsers)

1. (Australia, informal) A man who drinks alone.
   • 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.”

   • 1968, Geoffrey Dutton, Maxwell Henley Harris (editors), The Vital Decade: Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters, page 248,

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

2. (Australia, informal) A drink consumed alone.
   • 1988, The Bulletin, Issues 5602-5608, page 109,

     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.

References

1. 1 2 “Woodser, Jimmy”, in 1970, Bill Wannan, Australian Folklore, Lansdowne Press, reprint 1979, ISBN 0-7018-1309-1, page 567.