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bizen.

Something monstrous or portentous; a shocking sight; sorry spectacle; disgraceful thing.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbaɪzən/
  1. Something monstrous or portentous; a shocking sight; sorry spectacle; disgraceful thing.

    Northern-England · Scotland · UK · dialectal · obsolete · rare
  2. Something serving as a warning or an example to be avoided.

    Northern-England · Scotland · UK · dialectal
Where this word comes from

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”).

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