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Definition of Fizzle
1. Noun. A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval). "The performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience"
Generic synonyms: Noise
Derivative terms: Hiss, Hiss, Hiss, Hiss, Hiss, Hiss, Sibilate
2. Verb. End weakly. "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"
3. Noun. A complete failure. "The play was a dismal flop"
Generic synonyms: Failure
Specialized synonyms: Bomb, Dud, Turkey
Derivative terms: Bust, Flop
Definition of Fizzle
1. v. i. To make a hissing sound.
2. n. A failure or abortive effort.
Definition of Fizzle
1. Verb. To sputter or hiss. ¹
2. Verb. (figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped. ¹
3. Noun. A spluttering or hissing sound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fizzle
1. to fizz [v -ZLED, -ZLING, -ZLES] - See also: fizz
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fizzle
Literary usage of Fizzle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"bribe, freight. "Hire" as a noun is now chiefly archaic. hireling, n. mercenary (now
spec.); spec. myrmidon. hiss, n. Spec, fizz, fizzle, siss (dial. ..."
2. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"At Princeton College, the word blue is used with fizzle, to render it ...
Another from Union writes: " If you have been lazy, you will probably fizzle. ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"To fizzle the elbow is to knock the " crazy bone." fizzle. A ridiculous failure.
The figure is that of wet powder, which burns with a hissing noise and then ..."
4. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"... the Deep Diggings and Hydraulic Mining—The Quartz Mines and Mills—The Fremont
fizzle in Mariposa—The Increasing Reliability of Mining as a Business—The ..."
5. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"fizzle, a failure. 1847 My dignity is outraged at beholding those who ... (NED)
1852 Awaiting the sure Nemesis of a fizzle in esse, and a flunk in posse. ..."
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