fizz Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)
  2. verb become bubbly or frothy or foaming
    froth; foam; effervesce; sparkle; form bubbles.
    • The boiling soup was frothing
    • The river was foaming
    • Sparkling water

WordNet

Fizz intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. Icel. fisa to break wind, Dan. fise to foist, fizzle, OSw. fisa, G. fisten, feisten. Cf. Foist.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fizzed ; present participle & verbal noun Fizzing
Definitions
  1. To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.
Fizz noun
Definitions
  1. A hising sound; as, the fizz of a fly.

Webster 1913