nize

N1I1Z10E1
/naɪz/

verb

To shut up; to stop talking.

OriginJamaican Creole nize →
UncommonScrabble 13
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Meanings

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

present singular third person nizes · participle present nizing · participle past nized · past nized

  1. imperativeoftenslangTo shut up; to stop talking.

    It’s not that you’ll be running for prez / But nize that beak or talk with a lisp

    2018, “socrates hits blunt”, performed by Keralanka
    1 more example

    “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 perspective, Toronto: Ryerson University, →DOI, page 35

Origin

  1. Jamaican Creolenize“noise”
  2. Englishnize

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

zineInezzein
Cite this entry
APA

nize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nize

MLA

“nize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nize.

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