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sizzling - 3 dictionary results

siz⋅zle

[siz-uhl] verb, -zled, -zling, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to make a hissing sound, as in frying or burning.
2. Informal. to be very hot: It's sizzling out.
3. Informal. to be very angry; harbor deep resentment: I'm still sizzling over that insult.
–verb (used with object)
4. to fry or burn with or as if with a hissing sound: to sizzle steaks on the grill; The sun sizzles the pavement.
–noun
5. a sizzling sound.

Origin:
1595–1605; imit.; see -le


sizzler, noun
siz⋅zling⋅ly, adverb


1. sputter, spatter, crackle, hiss.
siz·zle   (sĭz'əl)   
intr.v.   siz·zled, siz·zling, siz·zles
  1. To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat.
  2. To seethe with anger or indignation.
  3. To be very hot: a summer day that sizzled.
n.  A hissing sound.

[Perhaps frequentative of Middle English sissen, to hiss, of imitative origin.]
siz'zling·ly adv.

Sizzling

Siz"zling\, a. & n. from Sizzle.
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