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[syn: red-hot, sizzling]
The 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sizzling \Siz"zling\,
a. & n. from Sizzle.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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