dizzard
English
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps from dizzy + -ard. Compare dotard.
Noun
dizzard (plural dizzards)
- (obsolete) A jester or fool.
- (obsolete) An idiot.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:, 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, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights:
- "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head; […] you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.
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Alternative forms
- dizard, disard
Derived terms
- dizzardly