Geazon

Alternative forms

• geason, gaison, gessen

Origin

From Middle English geson, gesene ("rare, scarce"), from Old English gǣsne ("deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead"), from Proto-Germanic *gaisnijaz ("barren, poor"), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰē- ("to be gaping, yawn"). Cognate with North Frisian gast ("barren"), Low German güst ("barren"), Old High German geisini, keisini ("lack").

Full definition of geazon

Adjective

1. (rare or dialectal) Rare; uncommon; scarce.
• 1821 , Robert Laneham , Laneham's Letter Chapter , One had a saddle, another a pad or a pannel fastened with a cord, for girths were geazon.
• 1937 , , Elizabethan Critical Essays Chapter , … ye shal finde many other word to rime with him, bycause such terminations are not geazon, …
• 1969 , George Gascoigne , The Complete Works of George Gascoigne Chapter Weedes , Why live I wretch alas (quoth he) where all good luck is geazon?
2. (UK dialectal) Difficult to procure; scant; sparing.
3. (rare or dialectal) Unusual; wonderful.