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"Come back and shut the door, thou blundering dizzard!— The King's Daughters
[65] A "dizzard" = a blockhead.— A History of Elizabethan Literature
ho; and falls to calling me names, dizzard, ass, lunatic, moper, Bedlamite, Pseudo-Democritus.— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4
[6093] Quam sese ore ferens, quam forti pectore et armis_, how bravely did he discourse, ride, sing, and dance, &c.;, and then she begins to loathe her husband, repugnans osculatur_, to hate him and his filthy beard, his goatish complexion, as Doris said of Polyphemus, [6094]_totus qui saniem, totus ut hircus olet_, he is a rammy fulsome fellow, a goblin-faced fellow, he smells, he stinks, Et caepas simul alliumque ructat [6095]--_si quando ad thalamum_, &c.;, how like a dizzard, a fool, an ass, he looks, how like a clown he behaves himself!— The Anatomy of Melancholy
-- Thou idle, gaping dizzard [fool]! and I have to ask thee yet again what is come of aught, it shall be with mine hand about thine ears!— For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary
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