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Webster 1913 Edition
fizzle
fiz′zle
(fĭz′z’l)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
fizzled
(fĭz′z’ld)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
fizzling
(fĭz′zlĭng)
.] [See
Fizz
.] 1.
To make a hissing sound.
It is the easiest thing, sir, to be done,
As plain as
As plain as
fizzling
. B. Jonson.
To fizzle out
, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder;
hence:
to fail completely and ridiculously; to prove a failure.
[Colloq.]
fiz′zle
,Noun.
A failure or abortive effort; a fiasco.
[Colloq.]