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"Rizz" Named As Oxford's Word Of The Year 2023


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After more than 32,000 votes, and a team of language experts, Oxford’s Word of the Year 2023.

2023 marked the era of personal – and professional – PR. And what does it take to command attention? A whole lot of charisma, or the shortened form, ‘rizz’.

Pertaining to someone’s ability to attract another person through style, charm, or attractiveness, this term is from the middle part of the word ‘charisma’, which is an unusual word formation pattern. Other examples include ‘fridge’ (refrigerator) and ‘flu’ (influenza).

Use of the word as recorded in our corpus has increased dramatically in 2023, with a peak in June 2023, when actor Tom Holland was asked in a widely reported interviewabout his ‘rizz’, to which he answered, ‘I have no rizz whatsoever, I have limited rizz.’

Did you know?

The word ‘rizz’ can also be used as a verb, often in the phrase ‘rizz up’, which means ‘to attract, seduce, or chat up (a person)’.

Other considered words includes:

• prompt
• situationship
• Swiftie
• beige flag
• de-influencing
• heat dome
• parasocial

https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2023/

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Ugh god, I never got into it and I hoped it would die off.

Congrats to Rizz. 

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Argentum

what the heck is that? ive never heard that word before lol

"Δεν είσαι αγάπη. Δεν είσαι αγάπη. Είσαι οφθαλμαπάτη. Η τέλεια οφθαλμαπάτη" - Λαίδη Γκάγκα, 2016
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1 hour ago, LilMissThang said:

I’ve been sticking out my gyat for the rizzler being so skibidi all year

I work with 11 and 13 year old brothers and they say this all the ****ing time :saladga: 

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Taylucifer
2 hours ago, CAPRISONGS said:

situationship was robbed

oh ur so right, rizz is a fad, situationship is forever 

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Helxig
7 hours ago, LilMissThang said:

I’ve been sticking out my gyat for the rizzler being so skibidi all year

so phantom tax :bear:  

I'll be myself until they fūcking close the coffin.
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Helxig

Next they'll change the definitions of cap and mid as well :bradley:  getting old feels sooooo ****ing weird

I'll be myself until they fūcking close the coffin.
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DrKindnessKunt2005
13 hours ago, Argentum said:

what the heck is that? ive never heard that word before lol

The best way to explain it is chaRIZZma. 

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Argentum
1 hour ago, DrKindnessKunt1999 said:

The best way to explain it is chaRIZZma. 

oh like people calling pizza "'zzaaa"

so cool

bitchin even

"Δεν είσαι αγάπη. Δεν είσαι αγάπη. Είσαι οφθαλμαπάτη. Η τέλεια οφθαλμαπάτη" - Λαίδη Γκάγκα, 2016
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9 hours ago, Helxig said:

Next they'll change the definitions of cap and mid as well :bradley:  getting old feels sooooo ****ing weird

The way I just learned what "capping" was a few months ago when Doja dropped "Agora Hills" :bradley: @Roughhouse Dandy

I drive for Lyft and one of my passengers was a mom who explained to me some of the new slang. I feel so f*cking old at 34 :huntyga:

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1 hour ago, BlingNotTheMusic said:

The way I just learned what "capping" was a few months ago when Doja dropped "Agora Hills" :bradley: @Roughhouse Dandy

I drive for Lyft and one of my passengers was a mom who explained to me some of the new slang. I feel so f*cking old at 34 :huntyga:

We all gotta learn somehow lmao

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