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Idiot vs Dizzard - What's the difference?

idiot | dizzard |

As nouns the difference between idiot and dizzard

is that idiot is (slang|derogatory) a proponent of intelligent design while dizzard is (obsolete) a jester or fool.

idiot

English

Alternative forms

* eejit * idjit, idget (eye dialect)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) A person of low general intelligence.
    • usage note This may be used pejoratively, as an insult. It is a weak insult, however, and between close friends, family members, or lovers, is often completely nonaggressive.
  • (obsolete, medicine, psychology) A person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * genius

    Related terms

    * idiocy * idiom * idiosyncratic * idiotic * idiotically * idiot savant * useful idiot

    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.