FIZZLING

Verb

fizzling

present participle of fizzle

Noun

fizzling (plural fizzlings)

The sound of something that fizzles.

Source: Wiktionary


FIZZLE

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



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