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Dizzard vs Wizzard - What's the difference?

dizzard | wizzard |

As nouns the difference between dizzard and wizzard

is that dizzard is (obsolete) a jester or fool while wizzard is .

dizzard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A jester or fool.
  • (obsolete) An idiot.
  • *, 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), Olympian Nights , ch. 10:
  • *:"You're a dizzard !" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head;you're a Hatter !" I shrieked the last epithet.

    • wizzard

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1870, author=William H. Sparks, title=The Memories of Fifty Years, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Are you a wizzard that you have so drawn me on? }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1803, author=Various, title=The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="I should like to read 'Manfred' here," said Molly one morning (Byron was one of her favorites) "It is just the place, mountains, forests and all, and who knows--the wizzard ." }}