fizzlen.
/ˈfɪzl/, U.S. /ˈfɪz(ə)l/ 1.
a. The action of breaking wind quietly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
/ˈfɪzl/, U.S. /ˈfɪz(ə)l/ a. intransitive. To break wind without noise. Obsolete.
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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.)
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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).
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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.
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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.
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1848 Yale Lit. Mag. June 321 Fizzle him tenderly, Bore him with care.
Derivatives
ˈfizzling n. and adj.
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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.
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