izzard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of izzard
First recorded in 1730–40; variant of zed
Example Sentences
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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 Oliver Goldsmith
I know the whole thing from A to izzard.
From The Opened Shutters by Clara Louise Burnham
It was suggested by Ivan, that, with such a demand for the flesh, the izzard should fetch a better price.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
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 Thomas Hood
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 Samuel Johnson
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