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fizzing

fizz \fizz\ (f[i^]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. fizzed (f[i^]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. fizzing.] [Cf. Icel. f[=i]sa to break wind, Dan. fise to foist, fizzle, OSw. fisa, G. fisten, feisten. Cf. Foist.] To make a hissing sound, such as that of a burning fuse or a bubbling carbonated beverage.

fizzing

fizzing \fizzing\ fizzy \fizzy\adj. Hissing and bubbling, like a carbonated beverage.

Wiktionary
fizzing
  1. 1 That fizzes or fizz. 2 very fast n. 1 The action of the verb to fizz. 2 The sound made by something that fizzes. v

  2. (present participle of fizz English)

WordNet
fizzing

adj. hissing and bubbling [syn: fizzy]

Usage examples of "fizzing".

From the spot where the body lay came a fierce fizzing and cracking sound, which ceased, however, before the fumes had cleared away.

Jake retrieved two celebratory bottles of Tusker beer from his secret hoard, but the liquid was so warm that half of it exploded in a fizzing gush from the mouth of each bottle as it was opened, and there was only a mouthful for each of them.

The skull resisted, but the anatomist increased his pressure slightly, and Molly felt and heard a fizzing sound as the bone rippled and parted to make way for the metal.

That did not appear to mollify the padres, still fizzing and sputtering.

Em-Lin pushed her hands through the morphic skin of the tank and back into the hot, fizzing plasma.

BBS surround her, the first sphere filled with gaudy advertising, the icons fizzing against her skin, dancing around her like a cloud of insects.

Lucas Quade kiss, flowing tingly champagne bubbles through her veins, fizzing and popping in microbursts of pleasure.

Lying there among the knouts and nooses of cheap sheets and damp blankets, in his pink-tinged Yfronts, with the beercan on his gut and the fizzing snout in his fingers, Keith had a fairly accurate idea of who and what he was.

He couldn't tell if she was giggling at him or if his brain was fizzing, but he gave congenial chase with a sort of brontosaurian grace.

As the machine dispensed two fizzing cupfuls of club soda, he realized that this was probably exactly what she was going to do.

The raised voice in the restaurant and its sour tang of brutality and booze, the look a man will give his wife which demotes her on the human scale, which prepares her for the human disgrace of violence, the pumping leg, the fizzing eye, the public bar at ten fifty-five.

It had a fizzing quality that meant the speaker was breathing oxygen-charged water, so it must be coming from the bridge.

He waited for Nyquist's next remark, hoping it would include something humorous, an epic quip or two that would make Nyquist himself flash his fizzing teeth and gums in the sort of uncontrollable expectorating glee that Billy associated with the handicapped.

Her brain was still fizzing from the experiences, the naked savagery of the sayce-baiting, and the jubilant crowd in Donovan’s, blood heat inflaming her senses.

He felt a curious sensation in his chest, a fizzing like a severed ion beam.