Noun: bizen
| Singular | bizen |
| Plural | bizens |
Sample Sentences
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She's a shem and a bizen to all the heale town. [1823, Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, page 155:]
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[…] and a bizen like this. [1866, Eliza Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg, page 97:]
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It'll be a sham an' a bizen, if we cannot find him a menseful of a dinner. [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)]
Nouns inflected like bizen
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Old English Nouns '
bȳsen', Old Norse Nouns '
býsn'.