zizzle

present singular third person zizzles · participle present zizzling · participle past zizzled · past zizzled

1. Synonym of sizzle.

   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.

   2001, Gene Gach, Honestly!, page 136

   2 more examples

   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.

   1950, Rodney L. de B. Walkerley, Motoring Abroad, page 152

   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.

   2008, Margot Starr Kernan, Secret Passages, page 79

   Synonyms: sizzle