sizz

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪz/
• Rhymes: -ɪz

Noun

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

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

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