Jimmy Woodser

Etymology
From a poem by Barcroft Boake, published in The Bulletin of 7 May 1892, about a fictional Jimmy Wood from Britain who is determined to end the practice of shouting (buying rounds of drinks for one′s group of mates).


 * One man one liquor! though I have to die A martyr to my faith, that′s Jimmy Wood, sir.

Another mooted derivation is the Sydney slang term, after the similarly eponymous John Ward, a Sydney publican.

Noun

 * 1)  A man who drinks alone.
 * 2) * 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.”
 * 1)  A drink consumed alone.
 * 1)  A drink consumed alone.