fizzling

English

Verb

fizzling

  1. present participle of fizzle

Noun

fizzling (plural fizzlings)

  1. The sound of something that fizzles.
    • 2007, Andrew Caldecott, Not Exactly Ghosts, page 176:
      On the drive home Cromley decided that he must tell Kathleen of his verification of what, he was sure, had been her suspicions. He knew now why she had been so upset by moanings and fizzlings in the hot-water pipes.
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