mazzard

American  

[maz-erd] / ˈmæz ərd /

noun

1. a wild sweet cherry, Prunus avium, used as a rootstock for cultivated varieties of cherries.

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mazzard British  

/ ˈmæzəd /

noun

1. a wild sweet cherry tree, Prunus avium, often used as a grafting stock for cultivated cherries

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Etymology

Origin of mazzard

1570–80; earlier mazer; compare obsolete mazers spots, measles; see -ard

Example Sentences

MK: Some of my favorites: mazzard for “face.”

From Scientific American • Jun. 28, 2012

For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

I've stood,     With brains and honesty, some five-and-twenty   Long years as champion of all that's good,     And taken on the mazzard thwacks a-plenty.

From Shapes of Clay by Bierce, Ambrose

"Nay," answered Beltane, "first let us reason together, let us hark to the wisdom of Folly and grow wise—" "Ha, Roger!" cried one of the men, "tap me this tall rogue on his golden mazzard!"

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

"That which yo lack, mother," replied the sexton, "a mazzard wi' aw th' teeth in't."

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison