different between dizzard vs dizard

English

Origin uncertain; perhaps from dizzy +? -ard. Compare dotard.

dizzard (plural dizzards)

(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.

dizard (plural dizards)

1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes

Send