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Fizzle vs Mizzle - What's the difference?

fizzle | mizzle |

As verbs the difference between fizzle and mizzle

is that fizzle is to sputter or hiss while mizzle is to rain in very fine drops.

As nouns the difference between fizzle and mizzle

is that fizzle is a spluttering or hissing sound while mizzle is misty rain or drizzle.

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

    mizzle

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (mizzl)
  • To rain in very fine drops.
    • Synonyms
    * (rain in very fine drops) drizzle

    Noun

    (-)
  • misty rain or drizzle

    • See also

    * mizzly

    Etymology 2

    .An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English'' (ISBN 0486122867)''Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (ISBN 0199232059)

    Verb

    (mizzl)
  • (chiefly, British) To abscond, scram, flee.
  • * 19th c. Epigram quoted by (1810 - 1877), reproduced in Webster 1902-1913:
    • As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled .
  • * 1850, [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1593080638&id=ZIjn0JH0x5EC&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&sig=pHEE_LSu9AbOSBy47FAbydKRHeo]
    • “Now you may mizzle , Jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I’ll operate on him.”
  • * 1986, Joan Aiken, Dido and Pa [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0618196234&id=MNEhgMsgaIMC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&sig=JAfeh2dResB-FcNOuZRJBiu0ISA]
    • “Now you better mizzle ,” Dido told him. “Get back to your own quarters, fast.”

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