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siz⋅zle

  [siz-uhl] verb, -zled, -zling, noun
Use sizzling in a Sentence
–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

Related forms:
sizzler, noun
siz⋅zling⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. sputter, spatter, crackle, hiss.
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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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
sizzle

  1. S
    a wild card word for words beginning with , such as suck, smoke, sister. (Streets. Also for other words with initial S.) : Come on, sizzle, time to go.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

sizzle 
1603, perhaps a frequentative form of M.E. sissen "hiss, buzz," of imitative origin. The fig. sense is attested from 1859. The noun is first recorded 1823.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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