Do you have 'rizz'? Thought to be a shortening of 'charisma' it means romantic appeal or charm, and it's the word of the year for twenty twenty three according to Oxford University Press. How many of you know the meaning of the word and can use it in a sentence. We went out and about on the streets of the nation to find out.
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00:00 The trending word of the year is Riz. Do you know what this means?
00:08 Riz? No idea, dear.
00:11 Do you want to have a guess?
00:14 Risky business? I don't know.
00:17 Yeah, it's short for charisma, I believe, and it's all about whether you've got the
00:24 kind of, I don't know, charisma within yourself or whether someone else has got charisma and
00:30 they've got the Riz, they've got that well factor, they've got that, yeah. I've heard
00:34 it. It's like getting out there now.
00:37 Riz. I've never heard the word before. I'm a poet and it's never come up at any of the
00:44 open mics or the spoken word sessions that I do. It's an interesting one. I might be
00:49 writing something with it in.
00:51 Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary, has revealed its
00:56 word of the year. Riz is defined as style, charm or attractiveness and the ability to
01:01 attract a romantic or sexual partner. Mostly used by Generation Z, the word beat out others
01:07 like Swifty, an avid fan of the pop singer Taylor Swift, and Beige Flag, a character
01:12 trait that indicates a partner is boring, to make it to print in 2023.
01:16 Do you think the word has earned its place and have you heard it before now?
01:21 I'm one of the ways, to be honest, you know. I mean, if people like it, great. Riz, yeah,
01:26 it sounds good. But like everything else, it'll just become a word as part of the dictionary
01:31 in the future, you know, so.
01:34 I didn't until I read about it, yeah. I'd never even heard of it. I'm only 41, I'm not
01:38 that old, but I should know these things.
01:40 Do you know, can you guess what it means?
01:43 No. I'm of a certain age. No, I don't. And I have my children or my daughter, she's grown
01:48 up. So no, I have no access to that.
01:51 It means charm and charisma. So I'm assuming it's charisma.
01:56 Oh, yes. Yeah, that makes sense. Yes. Oh, good. I've learned something today.
02:01 Techno folk, so I don't know it's all on.
02:04 Would you have a guess about it?
02:06 Yeah, good. Excellent. Fantastic. You know, gee whiz, that old American thing, you know.
02:17 Do you know what you're not far off? It means like charisma.
02:20 Oh, there you go. Well, I've got plenty of, I've got plenty of what is it?
02:23 Riz.
02:24 Riz. Plenty of that.
02:26 He has Riz.
02:28 Yeah, it's mostly used by like teenagers, like twenties. No one over the age of 30
02:35 uses it at that age. People use like, we use Riz. That's how we got our lasses, especially
02:43 this month.
02:44 I have used that word mainly, mainly for silly jokes, just for the humour. It's a funny word.
02:52 I like it. Good to use. Why is the only word that's coming to me right now for tomfoolery?
02:59 That's all I've got for you. It's good to use for tomfoolery. It's fun.