fizzing, fizzy
(adjective) hissing and bubbling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fizzing
present participle of fizz
present participle of fiz
fizzing (plural fizzings)
The action of the verb to fizz.
The sound made by something that fizzes.
fizzing (not comparable)
That fizzes or fizz.
(slang) Very fast or active.
• gin fizz
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
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
