Fiz"zle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fizzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fizzling (?).] [See Fizz.]
1.
To make a hissing sound.
It is the easest thinng, sir, to be done,
As plain as fizzling.
B. Jonson.
2.
To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.
[Colloq. or Low]
To fizzle out, to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.]
© Webster 1913.
Fiz"zle, n.
A failure or abortive effort.
[Colloq.]
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