rizzar
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of rizzar
1800–10; probably < obsolete French ressoré sun-dried
Example Sentences
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Mild-mannered, tough as a rizzar and as sure of himself as any Scot, Murray declared at C. I. O.'s recent, raucous convention: "C. I. O. assumes complete jurisdiction over every major defense industry in the U. S."
From Time Magazine Archive
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After which the Senatus Academicus sat down 306 to rough plenty in the shape of rizzar’d haddocks and mustard, a sheep’s head, a haggis, and other delicacies of Scotland.
From Project Gutenberg
For, on the very day week that Patrick Makillaguddy and his spouce got their heads shaved, and were sent to beat hemp in the New Bridgewell on the Caltonhill, Jeanie Amos became Mrs Cheeper; the calender and the spinning-wheel were both burned by a crowd of wicked weans before old Mrs Pernickity’s door, raising such a smoke as almost smeaked her to a rizzar’d haddock; and the old widow under the snug roof of her ever grateful son-in-law, spent the remainder of her Christian life in peace and prosperity.”
From Project Gutenberg
For, on the very day week that Patrick Makillaguddy and his spouse got their heads shaved, and were sent to beat hemp in the New Bridewell on the Caltonhill, Jeanie Amos became Mrs Cheeper; the calender and the spinning-wheel were both burned by a crowd of wicked weans before old Mrs Pernickity’s door, raising such a smoke as almost smeaked her to a rizzar’d haddock; and the old widow under the snug roof of her ever grateful p. 168son-in-law, spent the remainder of her Christian life in peace and prosperity.”
From Project Gutenberg
But, being a philosopher, James submitted to his bed of thorns without a murmur; Nanse and I soothing his calamities, as we best could, by a bowl of sheep-head broth; a rizzar’d haddock; a tankard of broo-and-bread; a caller egg; a swine’s trotter; and other circumstantialities needless to repeat—as occasion required.
From Project Gutenberg
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