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Definition of Fizzling
1. fizzle [v] - See also: fizzle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fizzling
Literary usage of Fizzling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"Weather drizzling, Freshmen fizzling. Yale Lit. Mag., Vol. XV. p. 212. FLAM.
At the University of Vermont, in student phrase, to flam is to be attentive, ..."
2. The Letters of Thomas Gray: Including the Correspondence of Gray and Mason by Thomas Gray, William Mason, Norton Nicholls (1904)
"Duke" is Dr. Warner's expression for the same peculiarity of manner which Gray
describes by fizzling. — See Selwyn's " Corr.," iv. 283.—Mitford. ..."
3. The Comedies of Aristophanes by Aristophanes, W. J. Hickie (1853)
"... also told this to me.3 SS Is it not the case that ye then became red with
blushes with fizzling ? DEM. Aye, by Jove, this device was one of ..."
4. The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason: To which are Added Some by Thomas Gray, William Mason (1853)
"That old. fizzling Duke t is coming here again I hope to be gone first,) to hear
speeches lis new library, with the Bishop of Bristol, ° air his close-stool ..."
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