Lexicographical Neighbors of Gizzened
Literary usage of Gizzened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"... a person's throat rattles from strangulation it is said to be " gizzened."
GLAZENER. In slang parlance, a blow received on the eyes is " a glazener. ..."
2. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1903)
"What do ye think I keep the like of you—an auld done body that there is neither
sense nor work in—no to speak o' Isabel Byres there, wha is but a gizzened ..."
3. The Cook and Housewife's Manual: Containing the Most Approved Modern by Christian Isobel Johnstone (1828)
"... and brought to perfection ere the Union of the kingdom* had gizzened our
claret-casks, and knocked in the sides of our spice-boxes. ..."
4. Place-names of Ross and Cromarty by William John Watson (1904)
"In Easter Ross the term ' gizzened,' leaky, is still commonly applied to tubs or
barrels that have shrunk in the sun. ..."
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