Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wild sweet cherry tree, especially one used as grafting stock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
mazard .
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- noun A sweet
cherry , with taxomonic name Prunus avium
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"One word leading to others, which in their turn led to several more, Cyclone Jim struck Battling Percy on what our rude forefathers were accustomed to describe as the mazzard, and the gong sounded for
Piccadilly Jim 1928
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Well, if anybody tries to tell me that pot will get them to take their clothes off, I will personally rear back and strike them upon the mazzard, regardless of age or sex.
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009
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It's just that Reality gave me a whack in the mazzard with a wet fish.
He Said, She Said Zoe Brain 2008
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“Why, man, it was but a switch across the mazzard — blow your nose, dry your eyes, and you will see all the better for it.”
The Abbot 2008
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The mazzard cherry tree, growing wild throughout the southeastern United States, often yields twenty bushels of fruit.
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When he smote him o'er the mazzard with his streak-o'-lightning spear!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 Various
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Personally, if anyone had told me that a tie like that suited me, I should have risen and struck them on the mazzard, regardless of their age and sex; but poor old Bingo simply got all flustered with gratification, and smirked in the most gruesome manner.
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Why, een so, and now my Lady Worms; chapless, and knocked about the mazzard with a sextons spade.
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Saturday afternoon in the height of the mazzard season to cope with
Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Now a boy may be a lazy good-for-nothing, and yet (if you'll understand me) be missed from a garden where there are ladders to fix and mazzard cherries to pick; and likewise, though liable to be grumbled at, a boy has his uses in the gathering of cockles.
Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
oroboros commented on the word mazzard
Slang for the head or face; also, mazard or mazer. HAMLET: "Chapless and knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade."
--From Slang and its Analogues, Past & Present compiled by J.S. Farmer.
March 28, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word mazzard
"Gooseberries and raspberries came from Motte's fruit cages. Mazzards and bigaroons followed."
John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk, p 183
November 10, 2012