slang infix /iz/?
Bonikowski, Heather
hbonikowski at RANDOMHOUSE.COM
Wed Jan 26 21:45:45 UTC 2000
I've definitely heard "shizit" or "shiznit" "hizouse" and "hizomies" for the
last 4 years (Chicago IL, Austin TX, NYC).
-Heather Bonikowski
>>>On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM wrote:
> My son, 18, says that /iz/ or /@z/ (@=schwa) is reasonably current in
hip-hop
> slang as an infix to mean something like "the real thing" or "definitely"
or
> "for sure", apparently in nouns; e.g.
> b@'ziC < bitch
> man of the /hi'zaws/ < house
>
> Does anyone know more about this?
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel
>
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