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bisson

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈbɪsən/

Definition of bisson

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete)Sandblind, purblind.
    “He was a septuagenary […] He was rugose, pachydermatous, bottlenosed, almost bisson, breviped, tardigradous, and affected with trepidation, partial surdity, and most perceptible seity. Archaisms, exoticisms, and exolete lingo marked his allocution to the conflux.”
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adj

  1. (obsolete)Sandblind, purblind.
    “He was a septuagenary […] He was rugose, pachydermatous, bottlenosed, almost bisson, breviped, tardigradous, and affected with trepidation, partial surdity, and most perceptible seity. Archaisms, exoticisms, and exolete lingo marked his allocution to the conflux.”
  2. (obsolete)Blinding.
    “Run bare-foote vp and downe, Threatning the flame With Biſſon Rheume […]”

name

  1. A surname from French.

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Etymology

From Middle English bisen, bisne (“blind, purblind”), from Old English bisene (“blind”), probably from bi- (“near”) + sīen (“sight”) in the sense of "near-sighted, short-sighted". Compare Dutch bijziende (“mole-eyed”), German beisichtig (“short-sighted”). More at by, see.

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