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

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

From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry

I know the whole thing from A to izzard.

From The Opened Shutters by Burnham, Clara Louise

For the carcass of an izzard he received only ten francs; and for the skins two or three more!

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist

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.

From She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith, Oliver

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