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Izzard vs Dizzard - What's the difference?

izzard | dizzard |

As nouns the difference between izzard and dizzard

is that izzard is (scotland) the letter z; zed while dizzard is (obsolete) a jester or fool.

izzard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scotland) The letter Z; zed.
  • *1773 ,
    • ... [Reading.] Dear Sir,—ay, that's that. Then there's an M, and a T, and an S, but whether the next be an izzard , or an R, confound me, I cannot tell.

    Synonyms

    * uzzard

    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.