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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat.
  2. v. To seethe with anger or indignation.
  3. v. To be very hot: a summer day that sizzled.
  4. n. A hissing sound.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make a hissing or sputtering sound, as a liquid when effervescing or acted on directly by heat; make a sound as of frying.
  2. To dry and shrivel up with hissing by the action of fire.
  3. To be very hot, as if hissing or shriveling.
  4. To dry or burn with or as if with a hissing sound: sometimes followed by up.
  5. n. A hissing or sputtering sound.
  6. n. Extreme heat, as of a summer day.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface
  2. v. to be exciting or dazzling
  3. n. countable the sound of water hitting a hot surface
  4. n. uncountable zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
  2. n. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make a sound like frying fat
  2. v. seethe with deep anger or resentment
  3. n. a sizzling noise
  4. v. burn or sear with a sizzling sound

Etymologies

  1. Perhaps frequentative of Middle English sissen, to hiss, of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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