gizzing

== English == === Etymology === From Arabic غَزَلَ (ḡazala, “to display amorous behavior, to court”). === Verb === gizzing (dialect, UK, archaic, ambitransitive) To grin and laugh at someone. (dialect, UK) To gaze. === References === gizzing, in A glossary of provincial and local words used in England, by Francis Grose, Samuel Pegge, Pegge, Samuel, 1839, page 69. Eric Partridge (2005), “gizzing”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 871. Journal of Arabic linguistics, page 80.