nize

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See also: niże, niżę, niže, níže, низе, and ниже

English

Etymology

Disputed. Possibly from Jamaican Creole nize (“noise”) or a clipping of recognize.

Pronunciation

Verb

nize (third-person singular simple present nizes, present participle nizing, simple past and past participle nized)

  1. (MTE, slang, often imperative, often followed by it) To shut up; to stop talking.
    • 2017, David J. Grant, They don't really care about us: The stories of previously incarcerated Black men in Scarborough and their experiences with displaced anger through a Critical Race Theory perspective, Toronto: Ryerson University, →DOI, page 35:
      “Nize it you waste yute, I was just passin’ you da ting,” Wiz refutes back as he kisses his teeth and hands over the blunt to Big Caine.
    • 2018, “socrates hits blunt”, performed by Keralanka:
      It’s not that you’ll be running for prez / But nize that beak or talk with a lisp

References

  1. ^ Melissa Douglas, Shiyan Liang (2024) Eshe Mercer-James, Elaine Gold, editors, A Dictionary of English in Multicultural Toronto‎, Toronto: Canadian Language Museum, page 11
  2. ^ Anderson, Scott (2019 October 2) “Do You Know Toronto Slang?”, in University of Toronto Magazine‎

Anagrams

Northern Kurdish

Noun

nize ?

  1. lance (weapon)

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English nese, from Old English *nesu, *neosu.

Pronunciation

Noun

nize

  1. nose
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:
      Zim dellen harnothès w'aar nize ee reed cley;
      Some digging earth-nuts with their noses in red clay;

Derived terms

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59
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