nize

Disputed. Possibly from Jamaican Creole nize (“noise”)^[1] or a clipping of recognize.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /naɪz/

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

1. (MTE, slang, often imperative, often followed by it) To shut up; to stop talking.
   • 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:

     “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 / But nize that beak or talk with a lisp

• Inez, zein, zine

nize ?

1. lance (weapon)

• niz

From Middle English nese, from Old English *nesu, *neosu.

• IPA^(key): /nɪz/

nize

1. nose
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:

     Zim dellen harnothès w'aar nize ee reed cley;

     Some digging earth-nuts with their noses in red clay;

• nizterels

• 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, published 1867, page 59