Dizzard

//ˈdɪzəɹd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A jester or fool. obsolete
  2. 2
    An idiot. obsolete

    "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."

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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."

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from dizzy + -ard. Compare dotard.

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