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fizzer|ˈfɪzə(r)|
[f. fizz v. or n. + -er1.]
1. a. slang. Anything excellent or first-rate.
1866Lond. Misc. 19 May 235/2 If the mare was such a fizzer why did you sell her? 1889Boldrewood Robbery under Arms (1890) 318 That was a regular fizzer of a spree.
b. Cricket. A very fast ball; also, one that deviates with unexpected speed after pitching. colloq.
1904Daily Chron. 9 May 7/3 It will be good fun watching Tom keeping his fingers out of the way of a springing ‘fizzer’ of Lockwood. 1929A. Conan Doyle Maracot Deep 251 Challen sent down another over of fizzers. 1956R. Alston Test Commentary 44 Lock's first ball..was an absolute ‘fizzer’ which broke sharply.
2. = fizz n. 3; attrib., as fizzer-man, fizzer-brigade.
1894Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 3/2 I may explain that the ‘fizzer-man’ is a species of camp-follower who..takes every opportunity of disposing of his wares, consisting generally of sherbet-and-water. In hot weather Tommy Atkins patronises the fizzer brigade very largely.
3. Usu. in phr. on a (or the) fizzer. A charge-sheet. Services' slang.
a1935T. E. Lawrence Mint (1950) i. xi. 39, I got back after..twelve, and they shoved me on the fizzer! 1940Daily Mail 7 Sept. 3/8 Here are some current military phrases, interpreted... ‘On a fizzer’—On a charge. 1966New Society 9 June 25/1 Feeling I was on a fizzer (army talk for a disciplinary charge).
4. a. A firecracker that fails to go off. U.S. colloq. and dial.
1914Dialect Notes IV. 106 Fizzer, a firecracker that explodes with a hiss. 1978D. Ball Great Austral. Snake Exchange 107 When we brought them home..to break the wickless ones in half for ‘fizzers’, we never felt disappointment in these small gleanings after the profusion of the night before.
b. A disappointing failure; a fiasco or ‘wash-out’. Austral. slang.
1957R. S. Porteous Brigalow xiii. 101 Good old Carson, I thought. You may be a bit of a fizzer, but you'll do me. 1967Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1120/2 Fizzer, a failure, esp. it's a fizzer, ‘The traditional c[atch] p[hrase] when a mechanical device..fails to work’..: Australian: since ca. 1920. 1969W. Dick Naked Prodigal xix. 236 We all went to a New Year's Eve party in Goodway, but it was a fizzer. It never even got off the ground. 1974Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 21 Nov. 2/2 Even the Country Party leader..called it [sc. a mass protest by farmers] a badly-organised fizzer. 1986Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 25 May 84/5 (heading) A Team debut fizzer by George. 1986Facts on File 4 July 487/3 John Howard..ridiculed the prime minister's address as the biggest fizzer since Halley's Comet. |