dizzard

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"Come back and shut the door, thou blundering dizzard!

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  1. A blockhead. How many poor scholars have lost their wits, or become dizards! Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 188. He that cannot personate the wise-man well amongst wizards, let him learn to play the fool amongst dizzards. Campion, Chapman, and Beaumont, Mask of the Middle [Temple and Lincoln's Inn.

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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
  • Sirs Arthur, Harry, and the dizzard Hew —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
  • 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
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  1. Also written dizard, disard; from dizzy, foolish, + -ard. Cf. dotard.
 

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