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Definition of Fizzing
1. Adjective. Hissing and bubbling.
Definition of Fizzing
1. Verb. (present participle of fizz) ¹
2. Noun. The action of the verb to fizz. ¹
3. Noun. The sound made by something that fizzes. ¹
4. Adjective. That fizzes or fizz. ¹
5. Adjective. very fast ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fizzing
1. fizz [v] - See also: fizz
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fizzing
Literary usage of Fizzing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bits of Travel at Home by Helen Hunt Jackson (1878)
"Meantime, he skipped along from rock to rock like a chamois; and we followed on
as best we might, through the hot steam, which came up hissing and fizzing ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1862)
"We also agree with the statement that the main effect is produced while the
fizzing sound that accompanies the loss of the spheroidal state is heard, ..."
3. Albania: A Narrative of Recent Travel by Edward Frederick Knight (1880)
"There was a fizzing sound, as of those " devils " the schoolboy makes of damp
powder. With the fizzing there rose a pale blue smoke from the pan. ..."
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