izzard

American  

[iz-erd] / ˈɪz ərd /

noun

Chiefly Dialect.

1. the letter Z.

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izzard British  

/ ˈɪzəd /

noun

1. archaic the letter Z

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Etymology

Origin of izzard

First recorded in 1730–40; variant of zed

Example Sentences

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izzard

Z begins no word originally English; it has the sound, as its name izzard or s hard expresses, of an s uttered with a closer compression of the palate by the tongue, as freeze, froze.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel

You know the subject from A to izzard.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

His one poet was Burns, whom he knew by heart "from a to izzard."

From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry

The hotel-keeper knows this, and often makes ‘Nanny’ do duty for izzard.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist

Mix'd brown and blue each visage grew, Just like a pullet's gizzard; Meanwhile the captain's wandering wit, From tacking like an izzard, Bore down in this plain course at last, "It's Michael Scott—the Wizard!"

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas