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Fizzle vs Gurgle - What's the difference?

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Fizzle is a synonym of gurgle.


As verbs the difference between fizzle and gurgle

is that fizzle is to sputter or hiss while gurgle is to flow with a bubbling sound.

As nouns the difference between fizzle and gurgle

is that fizzle is a spluttering or hissing sound while gurgle is a gurgling sound.

fizzle

English

Verb

(fizzl)
  • To sputter or hiss.
    • ''The soda fizzled for several minutes after it was poured.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • It is the easest thing, sir, to be done, / As plain as fizzling .
  • (figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
    • The entire project fizzled after the founder retired.

    Derived terms

    * fizzler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spluttering or hissing sound.
  • Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.

    • Related terms

    * fizz * fizzy English onomatopoeias

    gurgle

    English

    Verb

  • To flow with a bubbling sound.
    • The bath water gurgled down the drain.
  • * Young
    • Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
  • To make such a sound.
    • The baby gurgled with delight.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gurgling sound.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

    Anagrams

    * * English onomatopoeias ----