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Lizard vs Vizard - What's the difference?

lizard | vizard |

As nouns the difference between lizard and vizard

is that lizard is any reptile of the order squamata, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail while vizard is (archaic) a mask worn to disguise or protect the face.

lizard

English

(wikipedia lizard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any reptile of the order Squamata, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
  • (chiefly, in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
  • * 1990 October 28, , Warner Bros.
    • Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
  • (colloquial) An unctuous person.
  • (colloquial) A coward.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, lang=en , legless lizard , lizard fish , lizard-skin , lizard snake , lizard stone , lounge lizard , sleeping lizard , stump-tailed lizard , true lizard , wall lizard , worm lizard}}

    vizard

    English

    Alternative forms

    * vizzard

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A mask worn to disguise or protect the face.
    • A grotesque vizard . -
    There, then, that vizard , that superfluous case, that hid the worse and show'd the better face.-- Shakespeare, Love's Labors Lost V.ii.387
  • A pretense
    • To mislead and betray them under the vizard of law. -