Sizz vs Zizz - What's the difference?

sizz | zizz |

As nouns the difference between sizz and zizz

is that sizz is (rare|or|archaic) fizz while zizz is a nap or sleep.

As verbs the difference between sizz and zizz

is that sizz is (rare|or|archaic) to fizz while zizz is to have a nap.

sizz

English

Noun

(es)

(rare, or, archaic) fizz

*{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Robert L. Taylor, title=Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I heard the din of happy voices in the "big house" and the sizz and songs of boiling kettles in the kitchen. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Franklin P. Adams, title=Something Else Again, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Horace: Book III, Ode 13 "O fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro----" Worthy of flowers and syrups sweet, O fountain of Bandusian onyx, To-morrow shall a goatling's bleat Mix with the sizz of thy carbonics. }}

Verb

(es)

(rare, or, archaic) To fizz

zizz

English

Noun

(es)

A nap or sleep.

* 1973 , Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, page 45)

Then I had a little zizz until Martland telephoned.

Verb

(es)

to have a nap