fizzler
See also: Fizzler
English
Etymology
fizzle + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɪzləɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɪzlə(ɹ)
- Homophone: Fizzler
Noun
fizzler (plural fizzlers)
- (slang) A physicist.
- 2004, Jacqueline Davies, Where the Ground Meets the Sky, page 132:
- Uncle Nick was this old fizzler on the Hill. The grownups called him Nicholas Baker and the kids all called him Uncle Nick, but the army couldn't fool me. I knew he was Niels Bohr, the world's greatest atomic scientist, all the way from Denmark.
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- A fizzy cocktail.
- A kind of firework.
Anagrams
- frizzle