👉 Alright settle in class! Let’s tackle this wee bit of a mouthful – frankly, I get exasperated just saying the name out loud. We're here to dissect the somewhat… prickly word:
"frazier."
Now, immediately you probably think of that delightfully neurotic, suspiciously well-dressed older gentleman from Cheers—Woodrow Bridgewater Fraser. That is... part of its pedigree. Originally in 1890, as a surname, it was a proper, respectable, and frankly rather stuffy name, the sort you’d find on an antiquated Rolls Royce. The shift into the current, decidedly less genteel meaning came about in the early 20th century, thanks to a somewhat… let's just say spiritedly inventive young American right fielder for the Wilmington Blue Rocks baseball team, a man named Philo Weaver. Mr. Weaver was an atrocious shortstop and even worse hitter. When he made a ridiculously bad fielding play, the exasperated umpire bellowed, in his most theatrical way. And that, my dear students, is when "he Fraziered it again!" caught on! —Essentially, it meant: He screwed it up spectacularly . You were essentially reporting a monumental failure of ineptitude. The good old days where the worst possible fielding play was just called “The Frazier." Now, here’s what I mean by the unsettling part – and you'll notice I'm not exactly
