mazzard

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Today I may get a thwack o' the mazzard which will give me an intervening season of unconsciousness between yesterday and to-morrow.

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  • Today I may get a thwack o' the mazzard which will give me an intervening season of unconsciousness between yesterday and to-morrow. —  A Cynic Looks at Life
  • "Why, man, it was but a switch across the mazzard--blow your nose, dry your eyes, and you will see all the better for it By this light, which I cannot see," said Adam Woodcock, "thou hast been a false friend to me, young man--neither taking up my rightful quarrel, nor letting me fight it out myself Fy for shame, Adam Woodcock," replied the youth, determined to turn the tables on him, and become in turn the counsellor of good order and peaceable demeanour--"I say, fy for shame!--Alas, that you will speak thus! —  The Abbot
  • Proceed One word leading to others, which in their turn led to several more, Cyclone Jim struck Battling Percy on what our rude forefathers were accustomed to describe as the mazzard, and the gong sounded for ROUND ONE Both men came up fresh and eager to mix things, though it seems only too probable that they had already been mixing more things than was good for them. —  Piccadilly Jim
  • Of outrage to thy hide and mazzard; —  Hudibras
  • Saturday afternoon in the height of the mazzard season to cope with —  Merry-Garden and Other Stories
 

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  1. Perhaps alteration of Middle English mazer, goblet, hard wood; see mazer.
 

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