sizz
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪz/
- Rhymes: -ɪz
Noun
sizz (plural sizzes)
- (rare or archaic) Fizz, sizzle.
- 1896, Robert L. Taylor, Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales:
- I heard the din of happy voices in the "big house" and the sizz and songs of boiling kettles in the kitchen.
- 1920, Franklin P. Adams, Something Else Again:
- Horace: Book III, Ode 13 "O fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro——" Worthy of flowers and syrups sweet, O fountain of Bandusian onyx, To-morrow shall a goatling's bleat Mix with the sizz of thy carbonics.
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Verb
sizz (third-person singular simple present sizzes, present participle sizzing, simple past and past participle sizzed)
- (rare or archaic) To fizz, sizzle.