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Webster 1913 Edition


Dizzard

Diz′zard

(dĭz′zẽrd)
,
Noun.
[See
Dizzy
, and cf.
Disard
.]
A blockhead.
[Obs.]
[Written also
dizard
, and
disard
.]
Diz′zard-ly
,
adv.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Dizzard

DIZZARD

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

Definition 2024


dizzard

dizzard

English

Noun

dizzard (plural dizzards)

  1. (obsolete) A jester or fool.
  2. (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.