单词 | fizzle |
释义 | fizzlen. 1. a. The action of breaking wind quietly. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > [noun] > quietly fizzle1598 fizzling1631 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sloffa, a fizzle, a fiste, a close farte. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Fizzle, a little or low-sounding Fart. 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 208 Now let a Fizzle steal in Silence forth. 1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Knights ii. iv, in Comedies 217 And then in court they poisoned one another with their fizzles. b. The action of hissing or sputtering. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [noun] > fizz or sizzle fizz1812 sizzle1823 fizzing1842 fizzle1842 snifting1849 sizzling1877 1842 R. H. Barham Auto-da-fé in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 83 Whose beards..Are smoking, and curling, and all in a fizzle. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiii. 205 The chicken and ham had a cheerful and joyous fizzle in the pan. 2. a. A failure or fiasco; U.S. College slang, a failure in recitation or examination. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > that which is a failure fizzle1846 fiasco1855 frost1874 blue duck1889 wash-out1902 blowout1925 turkey1927 flopperoo1936 stiff1937 muck-up1942 bomb1954 fizzer1957 lead balloon1960 damp squib1963 bummer1967 downer1976 society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > marks > failure of candidate deplumation1834 fizzle1846 flunk1846 pluck1852 fail1944 1846 Yale Banger 10 Nov. in B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (1851) 130 To get just one third of the meaning right constitutes a perfect fizzle. 1861 O. W. Norton Army Lett. (1903) 23 The Erie Regiment is one grand fizzle out. 1884 Liverpool Daily Post 13 Sept. 5/7 The affair will be a simple fizzle. 1958 Spectator 8 Aug. 185/2 A Suez-type fizzle-out. b. A good-for-nothing person. ΚΠ 1896 W. A. White in Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 15 Aug. Put the lazy greasy fizzle who can't pay his debts on an altar. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fizzlev. a. intransitive. To break wind without noise. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > break wind [verb (intransitive)] > silently or quietly fizzle?1533 foist1594 ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Hiv To fysel, uener. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 286 As for Onopordon, they say if Asses eat thereof, they will fall a fizling and farting. 1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote vi. xxii. 415 He gap'd and fizzl'd twice or thrice. 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 268 To fart and fizzle in the Time of Need. b. quasi-transitive (with cognate object.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > break wind [verb (transitive)] > silently or quietly fizzle1721 1721 T. D'Urfey Two Queens Brentford Epil. I fizzle such small puffs of Wind. 2. intransitive. To make a hissing sound; to hiss or sputter (as a wet combustible, or a fire-work). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)] > fizz or sizzle byssa1522 fizz1685 sizz1788 sizzlea1825 frizzle1839 fizzle1859 1859 All Year Round 31 Dec. 222 The black oil fizzles. 1881 Daily News 7 Nov. 5/1 Unambitious rockets which fizzle doggedly downwards. 3. figurative. a. intransitive (chiefly U.S. colloquial). To fail, make a fiasco, come to a lame conclusion; in U.S. College slang, to fail in a recitation or examination. Also, to fizzle away, to fizzle out. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] withsitc1330 fail1340 defaulta1382 errc1430 to fall (also go) by the wayside1526 misthrive1567 miss1599 to come bad, or no, speedc1600 shrink1608 abortivea1670 maroon1717 to flash in the pan1792 skunk1831 to go to the dickens1833 to miss fire1838 to fall flat1841 fizzle1847 to lose out1858 to fall down1873 to crap out1891 flivver1912 flop1919 skid1920 to lay an egg1929 to blow out1939 to strike out1946 bomb1963 to come (also have) a buster1968 the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things, actions, or processes > gradually to die away1680 sink1718 to die off1722 to burn out, forth1832 to die down1836 peter1846 fizz1847 to fizzle out1847 to die out1853 poof1915 down1924 to wind down1969 society > education > educational administration > examination > examine [verb (intransitive)] > fail examination fizzle1847 flunk1848 to ball up1856 spin1869 muff1884 1847 Yale Banger 22 Oct. in B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (1851) 130 My dignity is outraged at beholding those who fizzle and flunk in my presence tower above me. a1848 Cincinnati Gaz. The factious and revolutionary action of the fifteen has..disgraced the actors, and fizzled out! 1854 Olympia (Washington) Pioneer 15 Apr. The Stellacoom gold excitement has entirely fizzled out. 1866 Richmond (Va.) Enquirer (De Vere) The enterprise fizzled out in the most contemptible manner. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Fizzle, to work busily but ineffectively. 1884 Melbourne Punch 4 Sept. 98/2 Another of Mr. Mirams' pet fads has fizzled ignominiously out. 1893 Sat. Rev. 11 Nov. 538/2 A general recognition by the Chicagoans that their show had to some extent fizzled. 1910 R. Brooke Let. 20–3 Sept. in Coll. Poems (1918) p. li I've several times started to write you a notable..letter, but my life has been too jerky to admit of much connected thought lately, so the letter always fizzled away. b. transitive. U.S. College slang. To cause (a person) to fail in examination, or the like. ΚΠ 1848 Yale Lit. Mag. June 321 Fizzle him tenderly, Bore him with care. Derivatives ˈfizzling n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > [noun] > quietly fizzle1598 fizzling1631 the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > [adjective] > silently or quietly foistingc1611 fizzling1758 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [adjective] > fizz or sizzle fizzling1816 fizzing1841 sizzling1845 fizzy1855 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. iii. 2 in Wks. II It is the easiest thing Sir, to be done. As plaine, as fizzling. 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. F3v Fah on your passages, Your windy workings, and your fislings at The barre. 1758 T. Gray Let. 20 June in Corr. (1971) II. 573 That old fizzling Duke is coming here again. 1816 tr. V. J. E. de Jouy Paris Chit-chat III. 22 The fizzling of the bacon she was frying. 1893 A. Walters Lotos Eater vii. 157 The more complicated set pieces..lay in a fizzling, sputtering, snorting heap. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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