different between nizzle vs mizzle

English

Etymology

Blend of nigga +? -izzle. Popularized by the hip-hop culture in 1990s and 2000s, as a rhyme of shizzle, as in fo shizzle my nizzle (“for sure, my nigga”).

Pronunciation

Noun

nizzle (plural nizzles)

1. (slang, US, African-American Vernacular) Nigga, nigger.

Usage notes

See the usage notes at nigger and nigga.

Derived terms

• fo shizzle my nizzle

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?m?z.?l/, /?m?z.l?/
• Rhymes: -?z?l

Etymology 1

Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln (“to mizzle”), Dutch miezelen (“to drizzle, rain gently”). Of obscure origin, possibly a frequentative related to the base of mist; or, related to Middle Low German mes (“urine”), Middle Dutch mes, mis (“urine”), both from Old Saxon mehs (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- (“urine”), from *m?gan? (“to urinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei??-, *omei??- (“to urinate”). Compare also English micturate (“to urinate”), Old Frisian mese (“urine”), Low German miegen (“to urinate”), Dutch mijgen (“to urinate”), Danish mige (“to urinate”).

Verb

mizzle (third-person singular simple present mizzles, present participle mizzling, simple past and past participle mizzled)

1. (intransitive, now dialectal, Britain, Canada, US) To rain in very fine drops.

   Synonym: drizzle

Derived terms

• mizzly

Translations

Noun

mizzle (uncountable)

1. Misty rain or drizzle.

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps from Shelta mi(e)sli (“go”).

Verb

mizzle (third-person singular simple present mizzles, present participle mizzling, simple past and past participle mizzled)

1. (chiefly Britain) To abscond, scram, flee.
   • 19th c. Epigram quoted by Thomas Wright (1810 - 1877), reproduced in Webster 1902-1913:

     As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled.

   • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield [1]

     “Now you may mizzle, Jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I’ll operate on him.”

   • 1986, Joan Aiken, Dido and Pa [2]

     “Now you better mizzle,” Dido told him. “Get back to your own quarters, fast.”

2. (intransitive) To yield.
3. (transitive) To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)

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