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nize

/naɪz/

nize verb: to shut up; to stop talking.

Verb

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

  1. (imperative, often, slang) To shut up; to stop talking.
    • “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.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...
    • It’s not that you’ll be running for prez / But nize that beak or talk with a lisp2018, “socrates hits blunt”, performed by Keralanka

Forms of nize

third-person singular presentnizes
present participlenizing
past participlenized
pastnized

Origin of nize

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

Questions about nize

What does nize mean?
Nize means to shut up; to stop talking.
What part of speech is nize?
Nize is a verb.
How do you pronounce nize?
Nize is pronounced /naɪz/.
What is the past tense of nize?
The past tense of nize is nized.

Words near nize in the dictionary

  1. Nizar
  2. Nizari
  3. Nizaris
  4. Nizarism
  5. nizatidine
  6. nize
  7. Nizhegorodian
  8. Nizhegorodians
  9. Nizhnekamsk
  10. Nizhnevartovsk
  11. Nizhniy Novgorod

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