Lexic.us

Definition of Sizzling

1. Adjective. Hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound. "A sizzling spell of weather"

2. Adjective. Characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement. "Sizzling political issues"

Definition of Sizzling

1. Verb. (present participle of sizzle) ¹

2. Adjective. Hot enough to make a hissing sound. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: of food in a Chinese restaurant etc) Brought to the table in the metal dish it has been cooked in, making such a sound. ¹

4. Adjective. Exciting and intensely emotional. ¹

5. Noun. Such a hissing sound. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sizzling

1. sizzle [v] - See also: sizzle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sizzling

sizinesses sizing sizings sizism sizisms sizist sizists sizofiran sizy sizz

sizzle sizzled sizzler sizzlers sizzles sizzling (current term) sizzlingly sizzlings sjambock sjambocked

sjambocking sjambocks sjambok sjamboked sjamboking sjambokked sjambokking sjamboks sjoe sjogren-larsson syndrome

Literary usage of Sizzling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the Stomach: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1898)
"sizzling sounds. These can be heard only on direct auscultation, and are produced by gas forming quickly in the stomach. They are normally found after the ..."

2. Diseases of the Stomach: A Textbook for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1896)
"sizzling sounds. These can be heard only on direct auscultation, and are produced by gas forming quickly in the stomach. They are normally found after the ..."

3. Diseases of the stomach: Textbook for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1906)
"sizzling sounds. These can be heard only on direct auscultation, and are produced by gas forming quickly in the stomach. They are normally found after the ..."

4. Diseases of the stomach: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1903)
"sizzling sounds. These can. be heard only on direct auscultation, and are produced by gas forming quickly in the stomach. They are normally found after the ..."

5. Therapeutic Gazette (1904)
"Von Eiselsberg also called attention to the bubbling, forcing, "sizzling" sound which can be heard when the stethoscope is applied over the stomach after ..."

6. Paris Days and London Nights by Alice Ziska Snyder, Milton Valentine Snyder (1921)
"... Starch—Doing Men's Work in Front of Blazing Furnaces and Over sizzling Oil Baths—Visit to Birmingham Munitions Area—A Ride in a Frolicking "He" Tank—The ..."

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