dizzard

plural dizzards · alternative dizard · alternative disard

1. obsoleteA jester or fool.
2. obsoleteAn idiot.

   "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

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   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.

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 43