Disputed. Possibly fromJamaican Creolenize(“noise”)[1] or aclipping ofrecognize.[2]
nize (third-person singular simple presentnizes,present participlenizing,simple past and past participlenized)
- (MTE, slang, often imperative, often followed byit) Toshut up; tostoptalking.
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, page35:“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.
2018, “socrates hits blunt”, performed by Keralanka:It’s not that you’ll be running for prez / Butnize that beak or talk with a lisp
- ^Melissa Douglas, Shiyan Liang (2024) Eshe Mercer-James, Elaine Gold, editors,A Dictionary of English in Multicultural Toronto[1], Toronto: Canadian Language Museum, page11
- ^Anderson, Scott (2019 October 2) “Do You Know Toronto Slang?”, inUniversity of Toronto Magazine[2]
nize ?
- lance (weapon)
FromMiddle Englishnese, fromOld English*nesu,*neosu.
nize
- nose
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page86:Zim dellen harnothès w'aarnize ee reed cley;- Some digging earth-nuts with theirnoses in red clay;
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page59
