Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fizzle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fizzle \Fiz"zle\, n.
A failure or abortive effort. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fizzle \Fiz"zle\ (f[i^]z"z'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fizzled}
(-z'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Fizzling} (-zl[i^]ng).] [See
{Fizz}.]
1. To make a hissing sound.
It is the easiest thing, sir, to be done, As plain
as fizzling. --B. Jonson.
2. To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking. [Colloq.
or Low]
{To fizzle out}, to burn with a hissing noise and then go
out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and
ridiculously; to prove a failure. [Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fizzle
v : end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper
ending" [syn: {taper off}, {peter out}, {fizzle out}]
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