What is ‘rizz’ – and do you have it? Oxford University Press names its word of the year

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Melissa Twigg
Telegraph.co.uk

Who has the most rizz: Nigel Farage or George Clooney? If you don’t immediately know the answer then the problem is probably your understanding of the term rizz − which has just been named Oxford University Press’s word of the year.

To be fair, most people who aren’t Generation Z or terminally online haven’t had much interaction with the word. But for those in the know, rizz is what many of us are hoping to find under the mistletoe this Christmas.