bizen
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bysen, partly from Old English bȳsen (“example, pattern, model, similitude, parable, parallel, rule, command, precept”), and partly from Old Norse býsn (“a wonder, a portentous thing”), both from Proto-Germanic *būsniz (“command, precept”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to ask, beg”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, perceive fully”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bizen (plural bizens)
- (UK dialects, Northern England, Scotland, rare, obsolete) Something monstrous or portentous; a shocking sight; sorry spectacle; disgraceful thing.
- 1823, Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, page 155:
- She's a shem and a bizen to all the heale town.
- 1866, Eliza Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg[1], page 97:
- […] and a bizen like this.
- c. 1874, E. Waugh, Jannock ii. 13, as quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary and in the quotation, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1887), of J. H. Nodal and G. Milnar's Gloss[ary of the] Lancashire Dial[ect] (1875):
- It'll be a sham an' a bizen, if we cannot find him a menseful of a dinner.
- (UK dialects, Northern England, Scotland) Something serving as a warning or an example to be avoided.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bizen.
References
[edit]- ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “HOLY, adj.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 214, column 1: “(2) — bizen or by·zont, a show, spectacle, or conspicuous or ridiculous object”
Anagrams
[edit]Middle High German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old High German bīȥan, from Proto-West Germanic *bītan.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bīȥen (class 1 strong, third-person singular present bīȥet, past tense beiȥ, past participle gebiȥen, past subjunctive biȥe, auxiliary hān)
- to bite
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | bīȥen | ||||
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genitive gerund | bīȥennes bīȥenes | ||||
dative gerund | bīȥenne bīȥene | ||||
present participle | bīȥende | ||||
past participle | gebiȥen | ||||
auxiliary | hān | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich bīȥe | wir bīȥen | i | ich bīȥe | wir bīȥen |
du bīȥest | ir bīȥet | du bīȥest | ir bīȥet | ||
ër bīȥet | sie bīȥent | ër bīȥe | sie bīȥen | ||
preterite | ich beiȥ | wir biȥen | ii | ich biȥe | wir biȥen |
du biȥe | ir biȥet | du biȥest | ir biȥet | ||
ër beiȥ | sie biȥen | ër biȥe | sie biȥen | ||
imperative | bīȥ (du) | bīȥet (ir) |
Descendants
[edit]- German: beißen
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