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| yarborough | A bridge or whist hand containing no face cards in the trump suit. | Charles Anderson Worsley, Second Earl of Yarborough (1809-1897), who supposedly laid odds at one time of 1,000 to 1 that such a hand would not be dealt. |
| zany | Outrageously funny, ridiculous. | Zanni, a traditional clown who wears a mask with a long, downward curving beak in the Italian Commedia dell'arte. |
| Zeppelin | A dirigible balloon. | Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), German general and aeronautical pioneer who developed the first balloon with propellers that was dirigible (directable). |
| zinnia | A cultivated flower with a showy, rayed, variously colored flowers. | Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759), German anatomist and director of the Botanic garden of the University of Göttingen, where he described various species of orchids. |
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