Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which dazzles; specifically, one who produces an effect by gaudy or meretricious display.
Wiktionary
- n. one who dazzles
Examples
“Just watch the pigskin dazzler (Is that the Stanford band???)”
The Washington Post: Video: Butler High School pulls off miraculous victory
“The dazzler is a non-lethal weapon intended to cause temporary blindness or disorientation and therefore fall outside this protocol.”
“A dazzler is a type of a directed-energy weapon employing intense visible light, usually generated by a laser laser dazzler.”
“Another dazzler is a short dress and jacket completely paved in tiny sequins in a colorful flower design on a green background.”
“This did indeed protect them, in much the same manner as a blind man is immune to 'dazzler' weapons.”
“One "dazzler" is extracurricular activities like website building.”
“And the SWORDS itself is being replaced by a new version named after the Roman god of war-the MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System), which carries a more powerful machine gun, 40mm grenade launchers, and, for non-lethal settings, a green laser "dazzler," tear gas, and a loudspeaker, perfect for warning any insurgents that "Resistance is futile.”
“Israel is close to swinging an order to upgrade French-origin Mirage 2000 aircraft with the Delhi, Dec. 11: A palm-sized 'dazzler' pistol that will freeze a human target for 30 seconds, stun grenades stuffed with chilli powder, suffocating”
“The day had been a dazzler, hot against the skin with scratchy sunlight raking the thick July green.”
“Jonathan Monro is a solid foil as Fingers for the brash Leo Ash Evens as Toes, the ladykiller and razzle-dazzler.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: Theater: New York Musical Festival (NYMF) Roundup
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dazzler’.
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead
"Wow, we really have run out of names."
Codenames of superheroes, supervillains, etc. (that are actual words, or unique spellings of actual words).rogue, gambit, wolverine, storm, cyclops, phoenix, cypher, beast, berzerker, toad, avalanche, magma and 125 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names I
Tulip Names II: You Know My Name
A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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gleaned words
found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.
juggernaut, panopticon, superfluous, verfremdung, aleatory, googlewhack, palimpsest, petrosomatoglyph, epibiont, solipsism, zugzwang, ubiquitous and 500 more...
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Beyond Fair To Middling
words or expressions which, when used with and in the sense of "it's _____" or "it's a _____" mean simply good. Or better :-)
balltearer, beauty, ripper, all good, going swimmingly, snorter, ripsnorter, cracker, belter, corker, jaffa, nifty and 44 more...
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She's Beautiful
exquisite, comely, bewitching, captivating, enchanting, irresistable, fetching, hypnotic, spellbinding, curvaceous, haunting, scrumptious and 28 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dazzler.
yarb See bobby-dazzler. Dec 7, 2010
yarb But none with "bobby" :( Dec 7, 2010
hernesheir See Wordnik examples for this word's pairing with "pistol" and "weapons". Dec 7, 2010