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▪ I. sizzle, n.|ˈsɪz(ə)l|
[from the vb.]
1. A hissing sound, esp. one produced by the action of frying or roasting; also, broiling heat. Also fig.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 351 Sizzle, the half hiss, half sigh of an animal; of an owl for instance. 1880Scribner's Mag. June 222 The sizzle and delectable flavor of the deer's juicy ribs roasting in those ashes. 1901Munsey's Mag. XXIV. 510/2 The match..ended a wasted life in a sizzle of despair. 1964Economist 1 Feb. 400/1 The Jesuit sanctuary at Loyola..was a sizzle of sex-appeal. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 17 July 6/1 You've reached middle age, and your marriage has lost its sizzle.
2. Comb., as sizzle cymbal, a cymbal, used chiefly in jazz and dance bands, with several small rivets set loosely through it to make a sizzling sound when the cymbal is struck.
1944W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. 198/1 Various modifications are used in jazz bands, e.g., the Choke cymbal, the Sizzle cymbal. 1964R. Burns Selection, Care, & Use of Cymbals 7 Sizzle cymbals are immensely popular with drummers playing with jazz groups. 1967New Yorker 21 Jan. 52/2 Marsala told me just to play with wood⁓blocks and a sizzle cymbal.
▪ II. sizzle, v.|ˈsɪz(ə)l|
Also 7 sizle, 8 sizel.
[Imitative: cf. sizz v. and fizzle v.]
1. trans. To burn or scorch so as to produce a hissing sound; to burn up with intense heat.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. xxiii. 165 Having his taile wel sizled with brimstone or scalded soundly with Holy water. 1624J. Gee Foot out of Snare 47 Hath none read of..the holy potion, to scald, broil, and to sizle the Diuell? 1715Cotton's Scarron. iv. (ed. 10) 92 To sizel thy Tail instead of Paper. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 351 If we heen't rain in another week we shall be all sizzled up.
2. intr. To make a kind of hissing sound, esp. in the process of frying, roasting, or burning.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 303 Sizzle, to dry and shrivel up with hissing, by the action of fire on some greasy or juicy substance. 1861O. W. Holmes Elsie V. v. 66 In it the hot iron being then allowed to sizzle, there results a peculiar singed aroma. 1883E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones 67 From its ends sizzled and dropped its sap.
fig.1859Beecher Life Thoughts Ser. ii. 91 This question is sizzling everywhere. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad I. 245, I simply sat still..and sizzled,—for I was being slowly fried to death in my own blushes. 1928‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xv. 266 As Little River was in the same direction he sizzled away to old Healey at the point of the spur. 1966Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 13/3 Some colours vibrate when they are used together and I often use them to make a dull corner sizzle. 1979Fisherman's Weekly 21 July 27/1 When a run comes, line can sizzle off the reel, so be sure to use an open bale-arm plus indicator.
Hence ˈsizzling vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also fig.
1845S. Judd Margaret 159 (Bartlett), From the ends of the wood the sap fries and drips on the sizzling coals below. 1877E. G. Squier Peru (1878) 234 There is a gentle and constant sizzling of frying meats. 1884Harper's Mag. Sept. 526/2 We could..hear the sizzling of our cutlets. 1890Hall Caine Bondman xxvi, Instantly a sizzling and bubbling sound came up from below. 1923[see picture n. 2 j]. 1947Sporting Mirror 7 Nov. 8/1 His intended tap back to goalkeeper Hesford, from a long way out, became a sizzling shot which won the game for Charlton. 1977Time 30 May 51/2 The sizzling increases [in personal income] of February and March. |