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Definition of Fizzles
1. fizzle [v] - See also: fizzle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fizzles
Literary usage of Fizzles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Songs of Yale by Nathaniel William Taylor Root, James Kittredge Lombard (1855)
"Flunks and fizzles led the way, Rushes visionary : Flunks and fizzles led the day,
... Chorus—Flunks and fizzles led, &c. We newly illustrated laws, ..."
2. The General History of China: Containing a Geographical, Historical by Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1741)
"... the fizzles to the Sun in the Summer-time, and to prc- ferve them they fluff
them with Pepper and Nutmeg ; when they get them ready to ferve up at the ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Here he could fizzles mark, without a sigh, And see orations unregarded die.
— The Tomahawk, Nov., 1849. ... He fizzles when he stumbles through at last. ..."
4. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1912)
"The bomb he had come so confidently to explode had proved the direst of fizzles.
His enemy had not only regained his lost ground but was more strongly ..."
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