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Fizzles vs Mizzles - What's the difference?

fizzles | mizzles |

As verbs the difference between fizzles and mizzles

is that fizzles is (fizzle) while mizzles is (mizzle).

fizzles

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.

    • Related terms

    * fizz * fizzy English onomatopoeias

    mizzles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mizzle)

    • 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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