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Definition of Gizzening

1. gizzen [v] - See also: gizzen

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gizzening

giving givings giving birth giving medication giving protection giving up Giza gizmo gizmos gizz

gizzard gizzard gizzards gizzen gizzened gizzening (current term) gizzens gizzes GI bleeding GI endoscopy

GI series GI tract Gjellerup gjetost gjetosts gju gjus Gla glabella glabella

Literary usage of Gizzening

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1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"If a person were swallowing food, and could get it neither up nor down, and consequently be checked in his breathing, ho would be said to be gizzening, ..."

2. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"If a person were swallowing food, and could get it neither up nor down, and consequently be checked in his breath,ng, he would be said to be gizzening. ..."

3. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe). by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"If a person were swallowing food, and could get it neither up nor down, and consequently be checked in his breathing, he would be said to be gizzening. ..."

4. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"Frost binds up the water and confines it, the thaw makes the frost give it back again. Hants. Sussex. Norf. gizzening, pavt. act. Smiling. Craven. ..."

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