Lexicographical Neighbors of Gizzening
Literary usage of Gizzening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"If a person were swallowing food, and could get it neither up nor down, and
consequently be checked in his breathing, ho would be said to be gizzening, ..."
2. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"If a person were swallowing food, and could get it neither up nor down, and
consequently be checked in his breath,ng, he would be said to be gizzening. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe). by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"If a person were swallowing food, and could get it neither up nor down, and
consequently be checked in his breathing, he would be said to be gizzening. ..."
4. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"Frost binds up the water and confines it, the thaw makes the frost give it back
again. Hants. Sussex. Norf. gizzening, pavt. act. Smiling. Craven. ..."
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