fiz

English

Verb

fiz (third-person singular simple present fizzes, present participle fizzing, simple past and past participle fizzed)

1. Archaic form of fizz.
   • 1844, Eliza Peake, Honour!:

     “Why, do you know Margaret, I never hear the gallant captain talk, but I think of those small stone bottles one sees by the road-side, in the little green barrows on hot, dusty day. Fiz, fiz, fiz they go, and only seem to be watching an opportunity to fly out in the face of that luckless wight who should be bold enough to cut their restraining wire.”

Noun

fiz (countable and uncountable, plural fizzes)

1. Archaic form of fizz.
   • 1930, American Journal of Pharmacy (volume 102, page 26)

     When the contents of the papers are dissolved in separate portions of water and the two solutions are then mixed, there results a “fizzy” mixture which is not hard to take. The “fiz” is due to the carbon dioxide (the chief substance desired).

Anagrams

• ZIF

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Old French

Alternative forms

• fils
• filz
• fis
• fix

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fits/

Noun

fiz m

1. inflection of fil:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiʃ/
• Hyphenation: fiz
• Rhymes: -is

Verb

fiz