SIZZLING

sizzling

(adjective) hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; “a sizzling steak”; “a sizzling spell of weather”

sizzling, red-hot

(adjective) characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; “a red-hot speech”; “sizzling political issues”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

sizzling

present participle of sizzle

Adjective

sizzling (comparative more sizzling, superlative most sizzling)

Hot enough to make a hissing sound.

(of food in a Chinese restaurant etc) Brought to the table in the metal dish it has been cooked in, making such a sound.

Exciting and intensely emotional or sexual.

Noun

sizzling (plural sizzlings)

Such a hissing sound.

Source: Wiktionary


Siz"zling, a. & n.

Definition: from Sizzle.

SIZZLE

Siz"zle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sizzling.] Etym: [See Siss.]

Definition: To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Forby.

Siz"zle, n.

Definition: A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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