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disard

disard is the obsolete form of dizzard.

Meaning of dizzard

Noun

dizzard (plural dizzards)

  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

Forms of disard

pluraldisards

Questions about disard

What is disard the obsolete form of?
Disard is the obsolete form of dizzard.

Words near disard in the dictionary

  1. disapproves
  2. disapprovest
  3. disapproveth
  4. disapproving
  5. disapprovingly
  6. disard
  7. disards
  8. disarm
  9. disarmament
  10. disarmaments
  11. disarmature

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disard (page history and authors); dizzard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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