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Webster 1913 Edition

(dĭz′zẽrd)

Noun.

[See

, and cf.

A blockhead.

[Obs.]

[Written also

dizard

, and

disard

–

Diz′zard-ly

adv.

[Obs.]

Noun.

[See Dizzy.] A blockhead. [Not used.]

dizzard ‎(plural dizzards)

(obsolete) A jester or fool.
(obsolete) An idiot.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.43:
  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.
- 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights, ch. 10:
  "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head; […] you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.