Meanings
plural sizzes
- archaicrareFizz, sizzle.
I heard the din of happy voices in the "big house" and the sizz and songs of boiling kettles in the kitchen.
1896, Robert L. Taylor, Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales1 more example
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.
1920, Franklin P. Adams, Something Else Again
Synonyms & antonyms
verbmake a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Onomatopoeic.
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Rhymes with sizz
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