sizzling

4 definitions found

sizzling - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sizzle \Siz"zle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sizzled; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Sizzling.] [See Siss.]
     To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up,
     with a hissing sound. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] --Forby.
     [1913 Webster]

  Sizzling \Siz"zling\,
     a. & n. from Sizzle.
     [1913 Webster]

sizzling - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sizzling
      adj 1: hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a
             sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather"
      2: characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement;
         "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues" [syn: red-   hot
         , sizzling]

sizzling - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "sizzling":
     assibilation, baking, boiling, broiling, burning, buzz, clack,
     click, crack, cracking, crackle, crackling, crepitation,
     decrepitation, effervescence, effervescent, effervescing, fiery,
     fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, het up,
     hiss, hissing, hot, hush, hushing, lisp, red-hot, rhonchus,
     scalding, scorching, seething, shush, shushing, sibilance,
     sibilant, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, simmering, siss, sissing,
     sizz, sizzle, smoldering, snap, snapping, sneeze, sneezing, sniff,
     sniffing, sniffle, sniffling, snore, snoring, snort, snuff,
     snuffle, snuffling, spit, spitting, splutter, sputter, squash,
     squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, torrid, wheeze,
     wheezing, wheezy, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise,
     white-hot, whiz, whoosh, zip