gizzn.
/dʒɪz/, U.S. /dʒɪz/, Scottish English /dʒɪz/ Scottish.
A wig.
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1773 R. Fergusson Poems 105 Sometimes they [squibs] catch a gentle gizz..And singe, wi' hair-devouring bizz, Its curls away.
1786 R. Burns Poems 60 Wi' reekit duds, an' reestit gizz.
1788 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 164 His Sunday's giz Wi' powther..Weel smear'd that day.
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n.1773- to laugh oneself sick
- to laugh oneself silly
- to laugh oneself stupid
- to laugh or take to scorning
- to laugh out
- to laugh out of court
- to laugh out of it
- to laugh out of the other side
- to laugh out of the other side of one's face
- to laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
- to laugh out of the wrong side
- to laugh out of the wrong side of one's face
- to laugh out of the wrong side of one's mouth
- to laugh out of wrong side of one's mouth
- to laugh over
- to laugh smere
- to laugh that off
- to laugh till one cries
- to laugh to bismer
- to laugh to hething
- to laugh to hoker
- to laugh to scorn
- to laugh until one cries
- to laugh up one's sleeve
- to launch into eternity