† rizzarn.
Scottish. Obsolete.
1. An act of drying something, esp. in the heat of the sun. rare.
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1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Rizar, a drying by means of heat, properly that of the sun.
2. A lightly-salted, partly dried haddock, usually one dried by exposure to the sun.Apparently only in the writings of John Wilson.
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1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 489 We'll ring when we want the rizzars.
1829 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xlii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 525 The Union-Table, with Tea and Coffee-Pots, and the O'Doherty China-set—Cold Round—Pies—Oysters—Rizzars.
1834 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lxvi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 148 Loaves and fishes! Rizzars! Finnans! Kipper!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
rizzarv.
/ˈrɪzə/, U.S. /ˈrɪzər/, Scottish English /ˈrɪzər/α. 1800s rizar, 1800s rizzor, 1800s– rizzar, 1800s– rizzer, 1900s– rissar.
β. 1800s rizzard.
Scottish. Now rare.
1. transitive. To dry or parch (fish), esp. to dry (haddock) by exposure to the sun. Also intransitive. Cf. rizzared adj. Sc. National Dict. (at Rizzer) records this sense as still in use in Angus, Fife, Berwickshire, and Kirkcudbrightshire in 1968.
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1801 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. II. 50 Haddies caller at last carting, Or rizzer'd sweet.
1849 Caledonian Mercury 21 June They could be sent to London in good condition, prime for being ‘rizzard’.
1862 ‘M. Dods’ Cook & Housewife's Man. (rev. ed.) iii. 408 The tail-cut of boiling haddocks may be rizzared.
1874 Chambers's Information for People (ed. 5) I. 768/2 Rizzaring a haddock means simply cleaning it, slightly salting, and hanging it up to dry for a day or two.
1879 G. Gourlay Fisher Life x. 65 Herring or haddock rizzering on wall.
1904 S. Beaty-Pownall ‘Queen’ Cookery Bks. VIII. (ed. 2) iii. 56 Hang [the cod] up to drain (preferably in the open air) for four or five days till quite dry, when it may be rizzared like a haddock.
2. transitive. To dry (clothes) in the open air. Sc. National Dict. (at Rizzer) records this sense as still in use in east central Scotland in 1968.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. 305/2 Rizar, applied to clothes, which have been so long exposed to the open air, as to be half-dried. Roxb.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 253 Rizzar, to dry (clothes) in the open air (especially when frosty).
Derivatives
ˈrizzaring n.
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1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xii. 133 He engaged the goodwife..with some compliments upon the rizzoring of our haddocks.
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