slizzard
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- slizzered (nonstandard)
Etymology edit
From slither + -iz-, an intensifying infix,[1] apparently + -ard, perhaps from drunkard. Compare slizzer (“to slither”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈslɪz.əd/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈslɪz.ɚd/
- Rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)d
Adjective edit
slizzard (comparative more slizzard, superlative most slizzard)
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Intoxicated on alcohol or drugs; stoned.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk, Thesaurus:stoned
- We're getting slizzard tonight!
- 1999 July 20, “U-Way (How We Do It)”, in Against da Grain[1], performed by YoungBloodZ:
- So how we do it when we do it shawty, you-WAAYYY / That Billy Dee got me slizzard like, you-WAAYYY
- 2001 March 13, “So Fresh, So Clean”, in Stankonia[2], performed by Outkast:
- YKK on your zipper, lick you like a lizard when I'm slizzard / Or sober, six million ways to fold ya
- 2012, Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, New York, N.Y.: Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 130:
- Billy makes a few of the cheerleaders for strippers—they have the tough slizzard look of the club pro—but most of them could be college girls with their fresh good looks, their pert noses and smooth necks, their scrubbed, unsullied air of wholesome voluptuousness.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Jonathon Green (2024) “slizzard adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Further reading edit
- “slizzard”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “slizzard”, in The Right Rhymes, launched 2013.