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Dizzard
Webster 1828 Edition
Dizzard
DIZZARD
,Noun.
Definition 2024
dizzard
dizzard
English
Noun
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.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.43: