fizzle

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The best thing about a fizzle is that it can change with the seasons -- Wolowidnyk started with a blood orange fizzle, is replacing that with a mango fizzle as blood orange season ends, and will offer a cherry fizzle when orchard fruits come into season.

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  1. intransitive verb To make a hissing or sputtering sound.
  2. intransitive verb Informal To fail or end weakly, especially after a hopeful beginning.
  3. noun Informal A failure; a fiasco.

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  • For his actions With a sudden fizzle, the light bulb in the jellyfish shade went out. —  A Demon In My View
  • Some time after this Fenian fizzle, my coachman saw a number of people being chased by the police for drilling; and about two years later, when I sent him to the Cork barracks on private business, he told me that he there noticed some of the very people who had been routed by the constabulary, but this time they were being drilled by the Government as militia. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • I hope I'm wrong, but I think this'll fizzle -- because another factual gaffe is surely soon to follow. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Throw in a "he's got a great personality" and you've got the perfect trifecta for a fizzle rather than a sizzle. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Without doing a lot of putting your thumbs on the scales of individual races, I don't know how you'd build a model that somehow predicted, say, Tom Feeney's implosion, or the fizzle in the open seat in NM-02, or Dave Reichert's confounding staying power, or Bob Roggio's amazing lack of name recognition ... or that Bill Sali was vulnerable (he was #106) if only because of sheer malice and stupidity. —  Swing State Project
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably from obsolete fise, a breaking wind, from Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse fīsa, to break wind.

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  1. Also fissle; freq. of fizz, v., q. v. Cf. sizzle, whistle.
  2. from fizzle, v.
 

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