单词 | izzard |
释义 | izzardn. archaic or dialect. Old name for the letter Z. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > Z zedc1175 zee1580 izzard1597 zad1669 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 36 X with y. ezod. & per se. 1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. D3v Asp. Marry buz. Flo. Double the zard and take the whole meaning for your labour. Pa. The buzzards wit's not so bald yet I tro. 1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 140 We may imagine it to have been anciently pronounced, as it is now by the Italians, Ds or Ts; and so to be called Zad from the Hebrew Tsadi: but yet..we..do as often call it Yzard. a1697 MS. Eng. Bib. c. 3 (Bodl.) f. 37 Uzzard, Z. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 29 Miss, what spells B double Uzzard? Miss. Buzzard in your Teeth, Mr. Neverout. 1755 S. Johnson Gram. Eng. Tongue in Dict. zed, more commonly izzard or uzzard, that is s hard. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iv. 79 Then there's an M, and a T, and an S, but whether the next be an izzard, or an R, confound me, I cannot tell. 1799 R. Southey Eng. Eclogues in Poet. Wks. (1838) III. 78 Warbling house-notes wild from throat and gizzard, Which reach from A to G, and from G to Izzard. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Izzet, the letter z. 1834 T. Hood Tylney Hall (1840) 269 A fiery izzard seemed written on the distant sky. 1837 J. Moultrie Poems 305 In those days not a soul knew A from Izzard. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1597 |
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