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rizzle

rizzle verb: to creep, as ivy.

Verb

rizzle (third-person singular simple present rizzles, present participle rizzling, simple past and past participle rizzled)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To creep, as ivy.

Forms of rizzle

third-person singular presentrizzles
present participlerizzling
past participlerizzled
pastrizzled

Origin of rizzle

Potentially related to rise, with the frequentative suffix -le. Compare siss and sizzle.

Questions about rizzle

What does rizzle mean?
Rizzle means to creep, as ivy.
What part of speech is rizzle?
Rizzle is a verb.
What is the past tense of rizzle?
The past tense of rizzle is rizzled.

Words near rizzle in the dictionary

  1. rizzier
  2. rizziest
  3. rizzing
  4. rizzing up
  5. Rizzis
  6. rizzle
  7. rizzled
  8. rizzler
  9. rizzlers
  10. rizzles
  11. rizzless

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