jizz

Meaning

Noun

The physical and behavioural characteristics of a bird that enable it to be immediately recognised by an experienced birder as a certain type of bird, especially to family or genus level.

Verb

1. (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen.
2. (slang, transitive) To ejaculate on, over, or into; to cover in semen.

Synonyms

cum

spunk

sperm

jism

come

seed

jissom

semen

spoof

cumin

flip

slime

frame

freak

flame

chuff

fetch

gravy

goo

face cream

honey

🍯

jelly

cream

futz

juice

lather

load

lot

malt

mayonnaise

fuck

👉👌

ejaculate

muck

milk

🥛

oats

ointment

paste

pineapple

🍍

protein

pudding

quince

rice pudding

roe

root

scum

frock

mettle

mess

frig

curd

Translations

Sperma

sperme

foutre

esperma

Samen

semence

sperma

esperma

zaad

sperma

sborra

Wichse

🇵🇱

Spermium

espermatozou

Samenflüssigkeit

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɪz/

Etymology

The earliest known appearance in print dates from 1922, in Thomas Coward's "Country Diary" column for the Manchester Guardian of 6 December 1921; the piece was subsequently included in his 1922 book Bird Haunts and Nature Memories. He attributed it to "a west-coast Irishman", and explained:
:if we are walking on the road and see, far ahead, someone whom we recognise although we can neither distinguish features nor particular clothes, we may be certain that we are not mistaken; there is something in the carriage, the walk, the general appearance which is familiar; it is, in fact, the individual's jizz.
There are several theories as to the etymology of “jizz”:
* From the military term GIS (“general impression and shape”).
* Possible contraction of just is (in the sense that a particular bird species “just is” that species).
An essay by Greenwood and Greenwood in 2018 debunks these theories. Other suggestions include variants of guise, gist and gestalt (mispronounced).