Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make a hissing or bubbling sound; effervesce.
- n. A hissing or bubbling sound.
- n. Effervescence.
- n. An effervescent beverage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make a hissing or sputtering sound; fizzle.
- n. A hissing or sputtering sound.
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
- n. The sound of such an emission.
- n. A carbonated beverage.
- v. To emit bubbles.
- v. To make a rapid bubbling sound.
- v. To shoot or project something moving at great velocity.
- v. To travel at a great velocity, producing a sound caused by the speed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make a hissing sound, such as that of a burning fuse or a bubbling carbonated beverage.
- n. A hissing sound.
WordNet 3.0
- v. become bubbly or frothy or foaming
- n. an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)
Etymologies
- Imitative.
Examples
“And very very low in fizz, which is fine with me but I suppose might bother some purists.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
““Portland Oregon and sloe gin fizz, if that ain’t love, tell me what is …””
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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.”
“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.”
“Some people have a vodka fizz, which is a lemony, sherberty, splendid drink.”
The Wall Street Journal: Harry Dalmeny Trades the Gavel for a Toboggan
“One sits at the counter and orders another a pink sloe gin fizz.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fizz’.
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 241 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 86 more...
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Sounds
Shhh! Listen! Did you hear that?
tintinnabulous, susurration, ululation, pandemonium, keening, tinkle, clang, caterwaul, twangle, twank, din, rumble and 34 more...
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