sizz

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English

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sizz (plural sizzes)

  1. (rare or archaic) Fizz, sizzle.
    • 1896, Robert L. Taylor, Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales[1]:
      I heard the din of happy voices in the "big house" and the sizz and songs of boiling kettles in the kitchen.
    • 1920, Franklin P. Adams, Something Else Again[2]:
      Horace: Book III, Ode 13 "O fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro——" Worthy of flowers and syrups sweet, O fountain of Bandusian onyx, To-morrow shall a goatling's bleat Mix with the sizz of thy carbonics.

Verb

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sizz (third-person singular simple present sizzes, present participle sizzing, simple past and past participle sizzed)

  1. (rare or archaic) To fizz, sizzle.