Word.ws English Dictionary

gizzing

gizzing verb: grinning and laughing at someone.

Verb

gizzing

  1. (UK, ambitransitive, archaic, dialectal) Grinning and laughing at someone.
    • Nay then; but you're a gizzing at me, maister.1875, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 253
    • She sang the flirtiest song, something about “But I knew dear, somebody else was gizzing you”.2004, Patricia Page, Across the Magic Line: Growing Up in Fiji, page 197
  2. (UK, dialectal) Gazing.

Origin of gizzing

From Arabic غَزَلَ (ḡazala, “to display amorous behavior, to court”).

Questions about gizzing

What does gizzing mean?
Gizzing means grinning and laughing at someone.
What part of speech is gizzing?
Gizzing is a verb.

Words near gizzing in the dictionary

  1. gizzardless
  2. gizzards
  3. gizzern
  4. gizzerns
  5. Gizzi
  6. gizzing
  7. Gizzis
  8. gizzit
  9. gizzits
  10. Gièvres
  11. gj

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gizzing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gizzing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gizzing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.