different between nizzle vs pizzle

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

Alternative forms

• pizzel, pisle

Etymology

From Dutch Low Saxon pesel or West Flemish pezel, diminutive of Middle Dutch pese (“a sinew, tendon, string, pizzle”), from Old Dutch *pisa (“sinew, string, fibre”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *faso (“sinew, fiber”); see Old High German faso for details.

Cognate with Dutch pees, Middle Low German pese (“tendon, bowstring”), Dutch pees (“sinew, tendon”), German Low German Peserick, Pesel (“pizzle”), dialectal German Pisel (“penis”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?zl?/, enPR: p?z'?l
• Rhymes: -?z?l

Noun

pizzle (plural pizzles)

1. The penis of an animal.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.19:

     Although, if in the lion the position of the pizzle be proper, and that the natural situation, it will be hard to make out their retrocopulation, or their coupling and pissing backward, according to the determination of Aristotle [...].

2. A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.

Derived terms

• pizzled
• pizzling

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