jizz

plural jizzes

1. uncountableusuallybiologyThe physical and behavioural characteristics of a bird that enable it to be immediately recognised by an experienced birder as a certain type of bird, especially to family or genus level.

   His birds are not carefully posed to illustrate every plumage detail; they are impressions rather than portraits. With a few deft strokes of his pencil, he captures their 'jizz'.

   2015, Nick Davies, chapter 3, in Cuckoo - Cheating by Nature (paperback), London: Bloomsbury, page 53

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   A West Coast Irishman was familiar with the wild creatures which dwelt on or visited his rocks and shores; at a glance he could name them, usually correctly, but if asked how he knew them would reply ‘By their "jizz".’

   1922, TA Coward, Bird Haunts and Nature Memories, London: Warne

   Ennion's work is instantly recognisable. It is not detailed, it is often ‘impressionistic’ and it sometimes almost borders on caricature, yet few bird artists can capture the jizz, movement and atmosphere of birds the way he did.

   1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 112

   Political cartoonists rely a lot on jizz. When a new president or prime minister comes into office it usually takes the cartoonists a little while to decide which features to select as field marks but they then stylise these in ways that make them instantly recognisable to the rest of us, even though they may be grossly exaggerated.

   2009, Jeremy Mynott, chapter 3, in Birdscapes, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton, page 74

alternative gism · alternative jazz · alternative jism · alternative jiz · alternative jizzum

1. slanguncountablevulgarMale ejaculate; sperm, semen.

   Synonyms: spunk, spooge, spoof, cum, jizzum, jism, gism, nut

present singular third person jizzes · participle present jizzing · participle past jizzed · past jizzed · alternative gism · alternative jazz · alternative jism · alternative jiz · alternative jizzum

1. intransitiveslangTo ejaculate; to eject semen.
2. slangtransitiveTo ejaculate on, over, or into; to cover in semen.