fiz

present singular third person fizzes · participle present fizzing · participle past fizzed · past fizzed

1. obsoleteObsolete form of fizz.

   1 more example

   “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.”

   1844, Eliza Peake, Honour!

plural fizzes

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of fizz.

   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).

   1930, American Journal of Pharmacy, volume 102, page 26

plural FIZes · plural FIZs

1. MalaysiaabbreviationeconomicsAbbreviation of free industrial zone.