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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fizzy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fizzy drinkBritish English, a carbonated drink American English (= with bubbles of gas)
▪ Dentists have warned that sweet fizzy drinks are bad for children’s teeth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drink
▪ Would you like to join a brilliant new club that's run by the makers of the fizzy drink, Tizer?
▪ I had brought fizzy drinks but both women spat the stuff out, having never tasted it before.
▪ Potato chips, fizzy drinks and chocolate bars are circulated.
▪ There were presents for every child, disco dancing, party games, fizzy drinks and floating gas balloons.
▪ Natural fruit juices are a healthier alternative to fruit squashes and fizzy drinks.
▪ She disapproves of anything that tastes really good, like icecream and fizzy drinks and hamburgers and chips and chocolate.
▪ Eat anything you like - yes, anything - chocolate, cream, fizzy drinks, coffee.
▪ Amid much razzmatazz PepsiCo announced that the second most popular fizzy drink in the world would henceforth come in blue packaging.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alcohol in fizzy drinks is absorbed more quickly than alcohol in still drinks.
▪ He came back, enthusiastically popped the cork and poured two glasses of the fizzy wine.
▪ I had brought fizzy drinks but both women spat the stuff out, having never tasted it before.
▪ It was too fizzy and too gassy to drink and I acquired a taste for real ale.
▪ Natural fruit juices are a healthier alternative to fruit squashes and fizzy drinks.
▪ One of them managed to spill orange fizzy stuff on to Jack's letter.
▪ Potato chips, fizzy drinks and chocolate bars are circulated.
▪ There were presents for every child, disco dancing, party games, fizzy drinks and floating gas balloons.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fizzy

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fizzy

1885, from fizz + -y (2).

Wiktionary
fizzy

a. 1 (context of a liquid English) Containing bubbles. 2 (context figurative English) delightful, exciting, interesting. 3 (context onomatopoeia English) Makes a hissing sound. n. (context NZ English) A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage. Short for fizzy drink.

WordNet
fizzy

adj. hissing and bubbling [syn: fizzing]

Usage examples of "fizzy".

Holly did not want to talk about having a baby, even gladder that she did not want to talk about Fizzy.

It was the shrewdies who did tinned beans, frozen fish and fizzy drinks.

My desire was making him sluggish, as if I were a cool, fizzy spumante that packed the necessary punch to exalt his senses and send him high as a kite.

Fizzy and spine-split copy of Metallurgy of Annular Isotopes are just off the edge of the reflecting blanket.

Fizzy was the most intelligent of the travelers or because he had redesigned the security unit on their tower at Coldharbor, but because he was the most fearful of them and the one most likely to provide a complete profile of the weak spots in Firehills.

He was not much older than Fizzy, Moura noticed, but in his slow attentive way he seemed both wiser and saner, and quite a bit more intelligent.

It was bad enough, as Fizzy had said, that some Skells had rocketsand it was well-known that though Starkies were always naked, they were also very well-armed.

Millennial Fizzy with stereo headphones on, and he hurriedly puts out his cigarette when Gately enters and closes the little drawer in the bedside table where Foss keeps his ashtray just like everybody else.

Fizzy with one wheel and bears the engineer in the scoop up and away and down the steep grade toward the idling van at the bottom, a van whose own angled ramp now slides out like a tongue or Autoteller's transaction-receipt, the NASA blanket blowing away from the scooped engineer's flailing form about halfway down and suddenly aloft in a hillside thermal and blown far out over Arlington St.

He was tall like Fizzy, he had Fizzy's fleshy lips and narrow bonesand even this wilderness had not coarsened his hands.

The new alcopops had turned out to be a menace, those sweet fizzy alcoholic drinks.

Who wanted to drink fizzy water with a little alcohol in it when porter and steam beer and barley wine were out there, too?

Somewhere along the line, the beer cellar was replaced with a toilet (leaving more room for paying patrons upstairs), and now its founts dispense fizzy concentrate diluted with water from the city mains.

Somewhere along the line the beer cellar was replaced with a toilet (leaving more room for paying patrons upstairs), and now its founts dispense fizzy concentrate diluted with water from the city mains.

The Eubanks had promised backup, and after pleading with them Fizzy agreed to navigate.