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rizzles

rizzles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rizzle.

Meaning of rizzle

Verb

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

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

Proper noun capitalized: Rizzles

Rizzles

  1. (slang) The ship of characters Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles from the television series Rizzoli & Isles.
    • Quite a few pop culture pieces about the show discuss “Rizzles,” a name the fan base created for a hypothetical Rizzoli-Isles pairing.2016, Lucia Scott, "They Won't: Analyzing Queerbaiting and Compulsory Heterosexuality in Popular Television", thesis submitted to Baylor University, page 25
    • R&I producers have commented that they did not intend to depict sexual tension between Jane and Maura, and stated or strongly implied that the pairing would never become romantic, but they have also revealed an intent to encourage the hopes of Jane/Maura (or "Rizzles") fans.2017, Eve Ng, “Between text, paratext, and context: Queerbaiting and the contemporary media landscape”, in Transformative Works and Cultures, volume 24

Origin of rizzles

Blend of Italian Rizzoli + Spanish Isles.

Questions about rizzles

What does rizzles mean?
Rizzles means the ship of characters Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles from the television series Rizzoli & Isles.
What is rizzles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rizzles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rizzle.
What part of speech is rizzles?
Rizzles is a proper noun.

Words near rizzles in the dictionary

  1. Rizzis
  2. rizzle
  3. rizzled
  4. rizzler
  5. rizzlers
  6. rizzles
  7. rizzless
  8. rizzling
  9. Rizzo
  10. Rizzolo
  11. rizzology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rizzles (page history and authors); Rizzles (page history and authors); rizzle (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.

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