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Definition: Fizzle |
FizzleVerb1. End weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fizzle" was first used: sometime around 1532. (references) |
Note: Fizzle \Fiz"zle\ (f[i^]z"z'l), intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Fizzled(-z'ld); Fizzling(-zl[i^]ng).]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | FIZZLE. An escape backward. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FizzleSynonyms: fizzle out (v), peter out (v), taper off (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Verb: bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle, gurgle; effervesce, ferment, fizzle. |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Verb: go out, die out, burn out; fizzle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fizzle |
| English words defined with "fizzle": Fizzled, Fizzling. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fizzicle Fizzle (1964) Duke Dolittle's Jungle Fizzle (1917) Luke's Fireworks Fizzle (1916) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Carbonated; carbonation; pour; buzz; effervesce; fizzle; froth; hiss; seethe; sibilate; simmer; sparkle; sputter; whisper; whoosh; bubble. | | Buzz; effervesce; fizzle; froth; hiss; seethe; sibilate; simmer; sparkle; sputter; whisper; whoosh. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Fizzle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 56.52% of the time. "Fizzle" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 56.52% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.74% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17.39% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fizzle": fizzle out ♦ To fizzle out. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
doggy fizzle televizzle | 116 |
doggy fizzle | 62 |
doggie fizzle | 21 |
doggie fizzle televizzle | 18 |
fizzle | 18 |
fizzle snoop | 7 |
fizzle snoop televizzle | 6 |
dog fizzle snoop | 4 |
fizzle televizzle | 4 |
doggy fizzle telefizzle | 3 |
dog fizzle snoop televizzle | 2 |
dizzle fizzle | 2 |
doggy fizzle snoop | 2 |
fizzle nizzle | 2 |
doggy fizzle telivizzle | 2 |
dog doggy fizzle snoop televizzle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fizzle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vërshëllimë (catcall, hoot, sing, singing), dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, come down, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse). (various references) | |
Arabic | غلى (boil, boil over, boiling, seethe). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съскам (fizz, hiss, swear), слабо съскане, неуспех (baffle, down, failure, fiasco, miscarriage, mishap, repulse, reverse, slip up, unsuccess). (various references) | |
Czech | syèet (hiss, sizzle), perlit (sparkle). (various references) | |
French | pétiller (fizz). (various references) | |
German | zischen (hiss, fizz, fizzling, sibilance, sizzle). (various references) | |
Greek | συρίζω (hoot, pipe, siss, zip), σφυρίζω αδύνατα, ελαφρό σφύριγμα ποτού, αποτυγχάνω (fail). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לאוש (fizz, rustle), להתחרבן (fail), אושה (bruit, fizz, hiss, murmur, rustle, sound, whisper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sistergés (sizzle, sizzling), pezsgés (churning, ebullience, ebulliency, effervescence). (various references) | |
Italian | frizzare (fizz, smart, tingle), spumeggiare (bubble, effervesce, fizz, foam, froth, sparkle), sibilare (blow, hiss, whistle, whiz, whizz, zip). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不首尾 (disfavour, disgrace, failure). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふしゅび (disfavour, disgrace, failure). (various references) | |
Manx | shishal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | izzlefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fiasco (fiasco), silvo (hiss), efervescência (booming, effervescence, effervescency, ferment, fermentation), chiadeira (creak, grating, gride, scroop, squeak). (various references) | |
Romanian | fâşâit (fizz, rustle, rustling), fâşâialã, fâşâi (hiss, rustle), eşec (abortion, check, defeat, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, flop, lame duck, miscarriage, naught, rebuff, repulsion, set back, wash out). (various references) | |
Russian | шипящий звук, выдыхаться;шипеть. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neuspeh (abort, boner, bust, failure, muff). (various references) | |
Spanish | ruido silbante, efervescencia (effervescence), chisporrotear (sizzle, spit, splutter). (various references) | |
Swedish | fräsande (fizzy, hiss, sizzle, sizzling), fräsa (fizz, hiss, spit, sputter), fiasko (fiasco, flop, washout), väsande (fizzy, sibilant, wheeze, wheezy), väsa (hiss, wheeze). (various references) | |
Thai | ล้มเหลว (หลังจากที่เริ่มต้นมาอย่างดี) (คำไม่เป็นทางการ) (fizzle out). (various references) | |
Turkish | fiyasko (bomb, bust, debacle, dud, failure, fiasco, flivver, frost, Turkey, washout), fışırtı (fizz, splash), fışırdamak (fizz), suya düşmek (collapse, come to grief, come to naught, come to nought, come unstuck, fail, fall through, fizzle out, flop, go by the board, go phut, go to pot, miscarry, peter out), boşa çıkmak (be blighted, come to naught, come to nothing, come to nought, fail, fizzle out, founder, go by the board, puncture), başarısızlık (abortion, balk, bankruptcy, baulk, bomb, bust, collapse, cropper, defeat, dud, failure, flivver, frost, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, miscarriage, reverse, setback, throwback, unsuccess, washout). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хвилювання (agitation, boil, bubble, care, disturbance, excitation, feeze, fermentation, heartbeat, perturbation, pother, pucker, stirring, swell, throb, uproar), злегка шипіти, легке шипіння. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng xì xì sự thất bại, tiếng xèo xèo (fizz). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | fisten. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fizzle": fizzled, fizzles. (additional references) | |
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"Fizzle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fazel, Fazl, Fazle, fisle, fissle, fizzen, Ifzal, Rizzla, wizzle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fizzle" (pronounced fi"zul) |
| 4 | -i" z u l | chisel, drizzle, grizzle, sizzle. |
| 3 | -z u l | appraisal, arousal, Basil, causal, counterproposal, damsel, dazzle, disposal, easel, embezzle, frazzle, guzzle, Hazel, spousal, menopausal, muzzle, nasal, nozzle, nuzzle, perusal, pretzel, proposal, puzzle, reappraisal, recusal, refusal, reprisal, weasel, Wurzel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-z-z" | |
-2 letters: file, fizz, lief, life. | |
-3 letters: elf, fez, fie, fil, fiz, lei, lez, lie. | |
-4 letters: ef, el, if, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-z-z" | |
+1 letter: fizzled, fizzles, frizzle. | |
+2 letters: frizzled, frizzler, frizzles. | |
+3 letters: frizzlers, frizzlier. | |
+4 letters: frizzliest. | |
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