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- noun slang, US, African American Vernacular
Nigga , another slang term used as a euphemism or familiar adaptation to the derogative termnigger , utilized during the time period immediately before and during the Civil War in reference to slaves brought over from Africa.
Etymologies
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Examples
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To all my dear readers who are left after this long, cold entry-less night: I hope you'll follow my little yellow-brick road, because you are the shizzle to my nizzle.
bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2008
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, on opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who was charged with treason last week after vowing to continue anti-Mugabe protests "This led to the faintly surreal experience of three gentlemen in horsehair wigs examining the meaning of such phrases as 'mish mish man' and 'shizzle my nizzle'."
Perspectives 2007
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Minega's world: Putting the shizzle back in the nizzle
Putting the shizzle back in the nizzle Minzo 2006
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I was waiting for Chuck to kick the living crap out of Richard, but alas, Chuck took the high road and just made grumbling noises at him like the Jolly Green Giant he is. it's the shizzle my nizzle.
badbadzoot Diary Entry badbadzoot 2005
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I have a Blogger account too, but I don't update that one as much as I do this one ... become an adoptive parent, fo rizzle ma nizzle okay, need to get back into my diary-writing groove.
badbadzoot Diary Entry badbadzoot 2005
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It told me fo shizzle my nizzle, take a rizzle in a quarter mizzle.
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It told me fo shizzle my nizzle, take a rizzle in a quarter mizzle.
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It told me fo shizzle my nizzle, take a rizzle in a quarter mizzle.
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It told me fo shizzle my nizzle, take a rizzle in a quarter mizzle.
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It told me fo shizzle my nizzle, take a rizzle in a quarter mizzle.
Gammerstang commented on the word nizzle
(verb) - (1) To be slightly intoxicated, to be the worse for liquor; to be unsteady; usually in past participle nizzled. Nizzle-toppin, an actively-inclined but weak-minded person; mid-Yorkshire.
--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
(2) Neezled, little drunk or intoxicated.
--Walter Skeat's Glossary of North of England Words, 1873
January 17, 2018