dizzard
noun/ˈdɪzəɹd/
Etymology Uncertain; perhaps from dizzy + -ard. Compare dotard.
1
Obsolete A jester or fool.
2
Obsolete An idiot.
- 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., New York Review of Books, 2001, p.43
- "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head;[…]you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights:
- Derived terms
- dizzardly