flop, bust, fizzle
(noun) a complete failure; “the play was a dismal flop”
hiss, hissing, hushing, fizzle, sibilation
(noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); “the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fizzle (third-person singular simple present fizzles, present participle fizzling, simple past and past participle fizzled)
To sputter or hiss.
(figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
fizzle (plural fizzles)
A spluttering or hissing sound.
Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.
An abortive effort; a flop or dud.
A state of agitation or worry.
Source: Wiktionary
Fiz"zle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fizzling.] Etym: [See Fizz.]
1. To make a hissing sound. It is the easfizzling. B. Jonson.
2. To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking. [Colloq. or Low] To fizzle out, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.]
Fiz"zle, n.
Definition: A failure or abortive effort. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
20 June 2025
(adjective) marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; “a modest apartment”; “too modest to wear his medals”
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.
