Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sizzling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sizzling \Siz"zling\,
a. & n. from {Sizzle}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
3: intensely stirred up especially by anger or resentment; "he
is boiling with anger"; "still sizzling over the insult"
[syn: {boiling}]
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