hazer

From haze +‎ -er.

• Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)

hazer (plural hazers)

1. One who administers acts of hazing, or abusive initiation.
2. The rodeo performer who hazes the steer.

From Proto-Scythian *hazahru (“thousand”). Also see Iranian borrowing sada (“hundred”).

hazer

1. thousand
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:
     , in Latin

     Viginti dicebat stega, triginta treithyen, quadraginta furdeithien, centum sada, hazer mille.

     For twenty he said stega, for thirty treithyen, for forty furdeithien, for a hundred sada, for a thousand hazer.