rizzle

English

Etymology

Potentially related to rise, with the frequentative suffix -le. Compare siss and sizzle. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

rizzle (third-person singular simple present rizzles, present participle rizzling, simple past and past participle rizzled)

  1. (UK, dialect) To creep, as ivy.

References

  • 1908, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary.
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