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Fizzler vs Fizzled - What's the difference?

fizzler | fizzled |

As a noun fizzler

is physicist.

As a verb fizzled is

(fizzle).

fizzler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • physicist
  • * 2004 , Jacqueline Davies, Where the Ground Meets the Sky (page 132)
  • Uncle Nick was this old fizzler on the Hill. The grownups called him Nicholas Baker and the kids all called him Uncle Nick, but the army couldn't fool me. I knew he was Niels Bohr, the world's greatest atomic scientist, all the way from Denmark.

    fizzled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fizzle)

  • 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.