Fuzzle vs Fizzle - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between fuzzle and fizzle

is that fuzzle is (obsolete) to make drunk; to intoxicate while fizzle is to sputter or hiss.

a spluttering or hissing sound.

(fuzzl)

(obsolete) To make drunk; to intoxicate.

(Burton)

(Webster 1913)

(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.

* fizzler

(en noun)

A spluttering or hissing sound.

Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.