TikTok It has made new terms popular. Among them, rizz, a word used to refer to people with charisma, who master the art of seduction, who like to flirt. And this, precisely, is the term that the ‘Oxford University Press’, the second oldest publisher in the world, has chosen as word of the year in 2023. It has thus surpassed one of the favorites to become term of the year: swiftiea term used to name Taylor Swift fans.
According to ‘The New York Times’, the popularity of the term rizz emerged last June, when actor Tom Holland said in an interview that he had “norizz“, which sparked a wave of memes on social networks and caused its use to multiply by 15 compared to 2022.
Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages, has told the aforementioned media that they have chosen this word to reflect the way in which social networks affect users. changes in language.
In the case of swiftie, Grathwohl assures that there may come a point where the term transcends beyond Taylor Swift and is not only used to refer to her fans, but to a way of life.