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Definition of Bezzle
1. v. t. To plunder; to waste in riot.
2. v. i. To drink to excess; to revel.
Definition of Bezzle
1. Verb. (obsolete) To drink to excess; to revel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bezzle
1. to drink hard [v BEZZLED, BEZZLING, BEZZLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bezzle
Literary usage of Bezzle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Missions, the Chief End of the Christian Church; Also, the Qualifications by Alexander Duff (1839)
"... bezzle the treasures of his grace ? And if so, must not their sin, if unrepented
of, bring down its deserved punishment ? And what can the first drop ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"bezzle [bez-1], v. to drink immoderately. A corruption probably of Wassail.
See bezzle- cup, infra. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"See bisogno. bezzle, to besot, stupefy, to drink immoderately. ... (sv bezzle,
vb.1 2). Norm. F. 'besitter, s'user, s'epuiser, se perdre, depe>ir' (Moisy). ..."
4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"bezzle, s. The slanting side of the edge of an edged tool. Norf. (2) s. A drunkard.
Oh me! what odds there seemeth 'twixt their cheer And the swoln bezzle ..."
5. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"Happily compounded of beast, and guzzle. The word like the practice is old.
In Nares we have bezzle or ... bezzle." Skinner says perhaps for ..."
6. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"—MILTON (AD 1641), Animad, upon Reman». Def. See bezzle in HAL. ... Oh mo !
what odds there seemeth 'twixt their cheer And the swoln bezzle at an alehouse ..."
7. Missions, the Chief End of the Christian Church; Also, the Qualifications by Alexander Duff (1839)
"... bezzle the treasures of his grace ? And if so, must not their sin, if unrepented
of, bring down its deserved punishment ? And what can the first drop ..."
8. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"bezzle [bez-1], v. to drink immoderately. A corruption probably of Wassail.
See bezzle- cup, infra. ..."
9. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"See bisogno. bezzle, to besot, stupefy, to drink immoderately. ... (sv bezzle,
vb.1 2). Norm. F. 'besitter, s'user, s'epuiser, se perdre, depe>ir' (Moisy). ..."
10. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"bezzle, s. The slanting side of the edge of an edged tool. Norf. (2) s. A drunkard.
Oh me! what odds there seemeth 'twixt their cheer And the swoln bezzle ..."
11. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"Happily compounded of beast, and guzzle. The word like the practice is old.
In Nares we have bezzle or ... bezzle." Skinner says perhaps for ..."
12. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"—MILTON (AD 1641), Animad, upon Reman». Def. See bezzle in HAL. ... Oh mo !
what odds there seemeth 'twixt their cheer And the swoln bezzle at an alehouse ..."
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