zizzle

English

Verb

zizzle (third-person singular simple present zizzles, present participle zizzling, simple past and past participle zizzled)

1. Synonym of sizzle
   • 1950, Rodney L. de B. Walkerley, Motoring Abroad, page 152:

     Water ran slap across the roadway from the hillsides and every few seconds the scene jumped into light and was gone again as the lightning zizzled through the clouds above.

   • 2001, Gene Gach, Honestly!, page 136:

     The fuse was lit and zizzling away; champagne, skyrockets, pinwheels and finally The Great Whiz-Bang; my back arched, my hands twisted around her soft silken hair.

   • 2008, Margot Starr Kernan, Secret Passages, page 79:

     Billy and I joined forces to pick on my sweet younger sister Lisa—once we had her electrocute worms by putting them into a peashooter and sticking them into an open light socket, which zizzled and sparked as the poor worms were fried.