jizz

Meanings

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.
• Male ejaculate; sperm, semen.

Verb

• To ejaculate; to eject semen.
• To ejaculate on, over, or into; to cover in semen.

Related

Similar words

• spunk , spooge , spoof , cum, jizzum, jism, gism, nut, junk

Origin

• The term was first used in print in 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",
• :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 other theories as to the etymology of “jizz”:
• From the military term GIS.
• Possible contraction of just is (in the sense that a particular bird species “just is” that species).
• These theories were debunked by Greenwood and Greenwood in 2018.
• Variation or shortening of jism.