variants or mazzard
chiefly dialect
as in head
the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth Granny threatened to whop me on the mazard if I didn't start minding my manners

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Noun
  • Be sure to cover your head and neck with your arms, and crawl under a sturdy table if possible.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Several of President Donald Trump‘s firings of independent agency heads have made their way through the Supreme Court‘s emergency docket, but Tuesday’s ruling in a federal appeals court likely moves the justices closer to overturning a 90-year precedent on the issue.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The dome will give Liverpool a full-size indoor pitch for the first time.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Dessert continues the theme with the Flaming Alaska, a meringue dome flambéed in front of you.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Cousins were playing ding, dong, ditch The victim's cousin told investigators that the two were attending a family birthday party about a block away from the scene of the shooting, according to a criminal complaint filed in Harris County court.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Who is on the block this week on 'Big Brother'?
    Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • New Light Show Eventually, the NuPhy team managed to create a homogenous light source by placing the LEDs at different angles to the beans and that eliminated the shadows.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Rotate tomatoes to a spot previously occupied by corn, cabbage, or beans to help prevent blight, wilt, bacterial spot, and anthracnose.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Mazard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mazard. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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