dizzard

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English

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from dizzy +‎ -ard. Compare dotard.

Noun

dizzard (plural dizzards)

  1. (obsolete) A jester or fool.
  2. (obsolete) An idiot.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , 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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