In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
FIZZ
fizz
(noun) an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)
foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form bubbles
(verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming; “The boiling soup was frothing”; “The river was foaming”; “sparkling water”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Onomatopoeia.
Noun
fizz (countable and uncountable, plural fizzes)
An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
The sound of such an emission.
A carbonated beverage, especially champagne.
Synonyms
• (emission of bubbles): effervescence, foam, froth, head
• (sound of bubbles): bubble, fizzle, hiss, sputter
• (carbonated beverage): pop, seltzer, soda, tonic
Verb
fizz (third-person singular simple present fizzes, present participle fizzing, simple past and past participle fizzed)
(intransitive) To emit bubbles.
(intransitive) To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.
(intransitive) To shoot or project something moving at great velocity.
To travel at a great velocity, producing a sound caused by the speed.
Synonyms
• (emit bubbles): bubble, effervesce, foam, froth
• (make bubbling sound): fizzle, hiss, sizzle, sputter
Source: Wiktionary
Fizz, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fizzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fizzing.] Etym: [Cf. Icel. fisa to break wind, Dan. fise to foist, fizzle, OSw. fisa, G. fisten, feisten. Cf. Foist.]
Definition: To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.
Fizz, n.
Definition: A hising sound; as, the fizz of a fly.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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