▪ I. izzard arch. or dial.
(ˈɪzəd)
Also izzet, izzart, uzzard.
[app. in origin the same word as zed: cf. ezod, the dial. izzet, uzzit, and the form ĕˈzed, now or formerly in Scotl. for zed; also Languedoc izeto, the letter z (D'Hombras Dict.).]
Old name for the letter Z.
| 1738 Swift Polite Conv. i. Wks. 1814 XI. 348 ‘Miss, what spells B double Uzzard?’ ‘Buzzard, in your teeth, Mr. Neverout.’ 1755 Johnson Dict., Gram., zed, more commonly izzard or uzzard, that is s hard. 1773 Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. iv. Wks. (1889) 668/2 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 Southey Eng. Eclogues Poet. Wks. III. 78 Warbling house-notes wild from throat and gizzard, Which reach from A to G, and from G to Izzard. 1828 Craven Dial., Izzet, the letter z. 1834 Hood Tylney Hall (1840) 269 A fiery izzard seemed written on the distant sky. a 1874 J. Moultrie Poems (1876) I. 167 In those days not a soul knew A from Izzard. |
▪ II. izzard
variant of izard.