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Fizzle vs Pizzle - What's the difference?

fizzle | pizzle |

As nouns the difference between fizzle and pizzle

is that fizzle is a spluttering or hissing sound while pizzle is the penis of an animal.

As a verb fizzle

is to sputter or hiss.

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

    pizzle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The penis of an animal.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.19:
    • Although, if in the lion the position of the pizzle be proper, and that the natural situation, it will be hard to make out their retrocopulation, or their coupling and pissing backward, according to the determination of Aristotle [...].
  • A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.

    • Derived terms

    * pizzled