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Definition of Fizzings
1. fizzing [n] - See also: fizzing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fizzings
Literary usage of Fizzings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Museums Journal by Museums Association (1903)
"... it does contain citric acid, and, unless kept too long, effervesces with great
fizzings. Briar belongs to a great class of words in English, ..."
2. The American Journal of Education and College Review by Absalom Peters, Henry Barnard, Samuel Sidwell Randall (1856)
"... listen to the fizzings and the cracklings, of the kind of females there, who
seem to you never to have been young, and who, you are very sure, ..."
3. On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel (1897)
"... intermittent pop- pings and fizzings of squibs. But it was also strangely
insistent; going on its way regardless of the shouting groom. ..."
4. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Education Association, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1857)
"... listen to the fizzings and the cracklings, of the kind of females there, who
seem to you never to have been young, and who, you are very sure, ..."
5. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1861)
"... he deceived his client He could not agree with the condemnation of all crockets
and fizzings, for that would lead to a very bald style of architecture. ..."
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