jism

English

Alternative forms

• gism
• jiz, jizz
• jizzum

Etymology

Originally US English; first attested with the meaning “energy” in 1842, and with the meaning “semen” in c.1888. For semantic development, compare spunk.

Unlikely to be related to Arabic جِسْم (jism, “body”) (or its Hindi derivative जिस्म (jisma)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɪzəm/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ɪzəm

Noun

jism (countable and uncountable, plural jisms)

1. Spirit or energy.
2. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
   • 1981, John Updike, Rabbit is Rich

     “ […] the girls in blue movies rub their faces in jism”

Translations

slang: semen

• Bulgarian: сперма f (sperma)
• Dutch: kwakje (nl) n
• French: camelotte (fr) f, béchamel (fr) m, foutre (fr) m
• Hungarian: geci (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: porra (pt) f, leite (pt) m
• Russian: спе́рма (ru) f (spérma) (slang), се́мя (ru) n (sémja), молофья́ (ru) f (molofʹjá)
• Swedish: sperma (sv) c, säd (sv) c, sats (sv) c, sagge (sv) c

Anagrams

• Jims