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Jester vs Dizzard - What's the difference?

jester | dizzard |

As nouns the difference between jester and dizzard

is that jester is one who jests, jokes or mocks while dizzard is (obsolete) a jester or fool.

jester

English

(wikipedia jester)

Noun

(en noun)
  • one who jests, jokes or mocks
  • a person in colorful garb and fool's cap who amused a mediaeval and early modern royal or noble court.

    • Synonyms

    * (one who jokes) buffoon, clown, joker, see also * (court entertainer) buffoon, clown, fool, jestress, see also

    Derived terms

    * court jester

    Hyponyms

    * (court entertainer) harlequin, pantaloon

    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.