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dizzard en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈdɪzəɹd/

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from dizzy + -ard. Compare dotard.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A jester or fool.
2. (obsolete) An idiot.
   • "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head;[…]you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet. 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights:
   • Lactantius, in his book of Wisdom, proves them to be dizzards, fools, asses, madmen, so full of absurd and ridiculous tenets and brain-sick positions, that to his thinking never any old woman doted worse. , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.43

Forms

Deriveds

dizzardly