Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Hissing and bubbling, like a carbonated beverage.

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  • verb Present participle of fizz.
  • noun The action of the verb to fizz.
  • noun The sound made by something that fizzes.
  • adjective That fizzes or fizz.
  • adjective very fast

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  • adjective hissing and bubbling

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Examples

  • It’s very possible that you’ll come out of a crit session with your brain fizzing with new ideas.

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  • If any of those poor romantic fools would have driven hours north to the Hopi reservation and doubled back, the word sucker fizzing like acid in their bellies as they sneaked glances across the car at the woman they loved, knowing she was going home to another man.

    VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

  • If any of those poor romantic fools would have driven hours north to the Hopi reservation and doubled back, the word sucker fizzing like acid in their bellies as they sneaked glances across the car at the woman they loved, knowing she was going home to another man.

    VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

  • If any of those poor romantic fools would have driven hours north to the Hopi reservation and doubled back, the word sucker fizzing like acid in their bellies as they sneaked glances across the car at the woman they loved, knowing she was going home to another man.

    VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

  • Floating Island contains sodium bicarbonate (aka the fizzing part); cocoa butter, almond oil, sandalwood oil, and lemon oil (the moisturizing part); citric acid; laureth 4; perfume; water; labdanum resinoid; and limonene.

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  • The waiter would say, "Certainly, sah," take a bottle between his knees, run his finger in his mouth and make it pop, and then pretend to pour out the champagne in glasses, imitating the "fizzing" perfectly.

    How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 1878

  • The 'pat-a-pat, pat, pat, pat, pat-a-pat, pat' of the sifter, and the cracking and 'fizzing' of the fat bacon as it fried, saluted their hungry ears, and the delicious smell tickled their olfactory nerves most delightfully.

    Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877

  • The "pat-a-pat, pat, pat, pat, pat-a-pat-a-pat" of the sifter, and the cracking and "fizzing" of the fat bacon as it fried, saluted their hungry ears, and the delicious smell tickled their olfactory nerves most delightfully.

    Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Carlton McCarthy 1872

  • Aides describe him as "fizzing", and interviewers are regaled with bursts of verse.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Ministers were said to be 'fizzing' with anger last month after the ONS published figures showing the growing numbers of immigrants getting jobs while the British workforce declines.

    Gates of Vienna 2009

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