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Dutch
Etymology
About 1920, from the Bargoens cant. Probably borrowed from Yiddish. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnoː.zəm/
- Hyphenation: no‧zem
Noun
nozem m (plural nozems, diminutive nozempje n)
- someone who belonged to a 1950s Dutch youth culture revolving around (light) motorcycles, similar to a greaser, raggare or Teddy boy
- Hyponyms: artistiekeling, (Amsterdam) dijker, (Amsterdam) pleiner
- rowdy, especially one with long hair, beard and tattoos like an archetypical Hells Angel