fizzers

Headaches and thirst are curiously rife, and the consumption of "fizzers" -- a temperance beverage of an effervescent character vended by an individual with the profoundest trust in human nature on the subject of deferred payments -- is extensive enough to convert the regiment into a series of walking reservoirs of carbonic acid gas.

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

"fizzers," as the captain would call them, because he said he wouldn't trust even guaranteed fireworks to be harmless around a gasoline engine, but they had plenty of excitement without blowing up the good ship Sarah.

Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island Mabel C. Hawley

Deliveries don't come more difficult than from a left-hander slinging down 90-mph fizzers with devastating late swing.

Fortune Swings to Australia Jonathan Clegg 2010

Pretty girls are ‘fizzers’, loudmouths are ‘bad hats’.

Crash, bang, wallop 2009

Pretty girls are ‘fizzers’, loudmouths are ‘bad hats’.

Crash, bang, wallop 2009

It's probably safe to say that any regular blogger notes which posts seem to do well and which are fizzers.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

It's probably safe to say that any regular blogger notes which posts seem to do well and which are fizzers.

[on the blog] puzzling data breakdowns 2008

It's only 8: 45 and I already had my lunch (leftover mac and cheese) and three fizzers, aswell as a cup of tea.

janedoe0 Diary Entry janedoe0 2007

They don't mean half of it, these furious fizzers.

The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

Usually plentifully besprinkled with currants, in which case it is designated by pitmen as "Singin 'Hinnies wi' smäa co fizzors" (small coal fizzers.) 2.

The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties Richard Runciman Terry 1901