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. intransitive To emit bubbles.
- v. intransitive To make a rapid bubbling sound.
- v. intransitive 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
- Onomatopoeia. (Wiktionary)
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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 …””
Think Progress » Like It or Not, You’re Funding Right-Wing Rock
“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’.
-
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...
-
Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
-
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 102 more...
-
EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
-
Sounds
Shhh! Listen! Did you hear that?
tintinnabulous, susurration, ululation, pandemonium, keening, tinkle, clang, caterwaul, twangle, twank, din, rumble and 34 more...
-
Words from books I've read
These are some words I didn't know when I read and now I want to know!
mortgage, fiddling, rage, kick, stroke, dodge, hunch, scratch, covetous, rank, trickle, budget and 179 more...
-
Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
-
Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
-
Unusual and Random Words
My Favourite Kind
quagmire, soliloquy, aardvark, topaz, ardent, exquisite, pyromania, pyre, extravagant, obscure, quetzal, quibble and 199 more...
-
astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
-
Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
-
Sounds like it
Onomatopoeia that's also an English word (not too much sound symbolism, like "ta" or "ting")
bang, clang, slam, clop, fizz, swish, whoosh, puff, blare, buzz, chatter, chirp and 16 more...
-
Libatious Lexemes
A list devoted to terms related to drinking; particularly alcohol.
reposado, armagnac, rhum agricole, tumbler, claret, medoc, muddler, tun, amontillado, amaro, chartreuse, calvados and 67 more...
-
Words I like to say:
thicket, mojave, lorelei, silvery, ringlet, shimmer, autumn, charming, chilly, lipid, patina, adore and 43 more...
-
If Snoop Dogg made a list
Fo' shizzle my chizzle, here's a lizzle!
sizzle, swizz, swizzle, twizzle, whizz, wrizzle, bedrizzle, bizz, crizzle, dizz, drizzle, hizz and 14 more...
-
Naughty Naughty
gyrate, torrid, by-blow, paramour, cuckold, salacious, philander, john thomas, uxorious, lithe, skivvies, coquet and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fizz.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.