Monday, July 19, 2010

The Word-Hoard: Nazz'd

Nazz'd: "Confused through liquor; slightly drunk. Nazzy, stupified through drink" (C. Clough Robinson's Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire, 1876)

"Nazzle, to be in a dreamy, stupid, abstracted state; Yorkshire (Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905)

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