Citations:bizen

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English citations of bizen and bizon

bizon[edit]

  • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Thompson, Canny Newcassel, in A Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive, chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect (1827), page 9:
    But the reck'ning, me saul! was a bizon.
  • 1895 (edition), Michael Aislabie Denham, The Denham Tracts: A Collection of Folklore:
    She next tuke up an awde three-footed stule, / And she called him a bizon, and an awde drunken fule.