bizen

Etymology
From, partly from , and partly from , both from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  Something monstrous or portentous; a shocking sight; sorry spectacle; disgraceful thing.
 * 2) * 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):
 * It'll be a sham an' a bizen, if we cannot find him a menseful of a dinner.
 * 1)  Something serving as a warning or an example to be avoided.
 * It'll be a sham an' a bizen, if we cannot find him a menseful of a dinner.
 * 1)  Something serving as a warning or an example to be avoided.