Defn: To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.
FIZZ
Fizz, n.
Defn: A hising sound; as, the fizz of a fly.
FIZZLE
Fiz"zle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fizzling.]
Etym: [See Fizz.]
1. To make a hissing sound. It is the easfizzling. 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.]
FIZZLE
Fiz"zle, n.
Defn: A failure or abortive effort. [Colloq.]
FJORD
Fjord, n.
Defn: See Fiord.