Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make a hissing or bubbling sound; effervesce.
- noun A hissing or bubbling sound.
- noun Effervescence.
- noun An effervescent beverage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a hissing or sputtering sound; fizzle.
- noun A hissing or sputtering sound.
- noun A light frothy liquid; specifically, in the United States, soda-water or other effervescent water; in England, champagne: so called from the hissing sound it makes when uncorked. Also
fizzle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To make a hissing sound, such as that of a burning fuse or a bubbling carbonated beverage.
- noun A hissing sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
emission of a rapid stream ofbubbles . - noun The
sound of such an emission. - noun A
carbonated beverage . - verb intransitive To
emit bubbles. - verb intransitive To
make a rapidbubbling sound. - verb intransitive To shoot or project something moving at great velocity.
- verb To
travel at a great velocity, producing a sound caused by the speed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become bubbly or frothy or foaming
- noun an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And very very low in fizz, which is fine with me but I suppose might bother some purists.
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Sure it's got pacing like molasses, and some sequences would be better cut from the movie, but at its best it makes my brain fizz with speculation like no other.
MIND MELD: The Most Intelligent Films of Science Fiction 2009
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Equally at home in café and bar environments or corporate breakout and communications areas fizz is available in a huge diversity of contemporary finishes which ensures its harmonisation with a plethora of interior design schemes.
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Equally at home in café and bar environments or corporate breakout and communications areas fizz is available in a huge diversity of contemporary finishes which ensures its harmonisation with a plethora of interior design schemes.
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Before the fizz is out of the wine drink to Robbie's good health and good luck to him, and to all our lads that have gone before.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
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It’s kind of like asking my maid for a martini and she brings me a gin fizz – I enjoy a gin fizz, it’s just not what I had my heart set on, you know?
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“Portland Oregon and sloe gin fizz, if that ain’t love, tell me what is …”
Think Progress » Like It or Not, You’re Funding Right-Wing Rock 2005
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A vaudeville with hors d’ouevres, a sloe gin fizz to a fast jazz beat, doilies but no undies - “The Wild Party” has it all.
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A vaudeville with hors d’ouevres, a sloe gin fizz to a fast jazz beat, doilies but no undies - “The Wild Party” has it all.
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The "Barr" champagne glass with a stylized head on the stem comes with a matching stirrer 1924—swizzling out the fizz was a jazzy fad in the roaring 1920s.
A Display of Lalique's Beauty Judy Fayard 2011
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