tazzed
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Possibly related to tazz (“to move quickly; to dash”) as in Etymology 2.
Adjective edit
tazzed (comparative more tazzed, superlative most tazzed)
- (dialectal, Yorkshire) Overwhelmed, beaten, or outmatched.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
tazzed
- simple past and past participle of tazz
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
tazzed
- Misspelling of tazed.
References edit
- J. C. Atkinson (1876) “Additions to A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect”, in Walter W. Skeat, editor, Original Glossaries and Glossaries with Fresh Additions (C; III)[1], London: English Dialect Society, page 6: “Tazzed, adj. overmatched, defeated, beaten, unable to accomplish one's end.”
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “TAZZED, ppl. adj.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes VI (T–Z, Supplement, Bibliography and Grammar), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 45, column 2.: “n.Yks.1 [ta'zd.] Overmatched, defeated; unable to accomplish one's purpose.”