Other forms: fizzing, fizzes, fizzed
To fizz is to make the soft hissing of escaping bubbles. The drink fizzed, hear it fizz, a fizzing tablet.
The sound is dissolved carbon dioxide coming out of solution, which is why a drink stops being able to fizz once it has gone flat. As a noun, fizz is the bubbles themselves, and in British use it is a casual word for champagne.
1verbfizzTo make the soft hissing of escaping bubbles.
“The lemonade fizzed as she poured it into the glass.”
fizz is a sound.
Imitative of the sound, recorded from the seventeenth century. Fizzle is a relative and first meant the same thing.
imitative of the sound.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA