different between jester vs dizzard

English

Etymology

From Middle English gestour; equivalent to jest +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??s.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??s.t?/
• Homophone: gestor
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)

Noun

jester (plural jesters, feminine jestress)

1. One who jests, jokes or teases.
2. A person in colourful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.
3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Southeast Asian genus Symbrenthia.

Synonyms

• (one who jokes): buffoon, clown, joker, see also Thesaurus:joker
• (court entertainer): buffoon, clown, fool, jestress, see also Thesaurus:jester

Hyponyms

• (person who amused a medieval court): harlequin, pantaloon

Derived terms

• court jester

Translations

Anagrams

• rejets

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse j?str, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz, whence English yeast.

Alternative forms

• jest

Noun

jester m (definite singular jesteren, indefinite plural jestere or jestre or jestrer, definite plural jesterne or jestrene)

1. yeast

   Synonym: gjær

Related terms

• ese

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: gjester

Noun

jester m

1. indefinite plural of jest

References

• “jester” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• jest
• gjester (non-standard since 1938)

Etymology

From Old Norse j?str, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz, whence also English yeast. Doublet of jest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?s.t?r/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

jester m (definite singular jesteren, indefinite plural jestrar, definite plural jestrane)

1. yeast

   Synonym: gjær

Related terms

• asa, ase
• esa, ese

References

• “jester” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

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

Noun

dizzard (plural dizzards)

1. (obsolete) A jester or fool.
2. (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.

Alternative forms

• dizard, disard

Derived terms

• dizzardly