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sizzle (iou)



sizzle verb & noun. E17.
[Imit.]
A. verb.
verb trans. Fry or burn so as to produce a hissing sound. E17.
verb intrans. Make a hissing sound, esp. in the process of being fried or roasted; fig. be very hot, be salacious or risque. E19.
R. Frame A gas fire sizzles in the grate. Sun Britain carried on sizzling yesterday as the heatwave scorched up to..90 degrees.
b. noun. A hissing sound, esp. one produced by something being fried or roasted; fig. intense heat or excitement. E19.
S. Radley The sizzle of cooking and appetizing smells.
Comb.: sizzle cymbal a cymbal having several small rivets set loosely through it to make a sizzling sound when the cymbal is struck.
sizzler noun (colloq.) (a) a very hot day, season, etc.; (b) a salacious thing; (c) a thing characterized by great speed, activity, etc.: E20.
sizzling adjective & adverb (a) adjective that sizzles; fig. intensely hot or exciting, salacious, risque; (b) adverb (colloq.)
sizzling hot, very hot: M19.
sizzlingly adverb so as to sizzle; colloq. intensely, extremely: M20.