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Fizz

noun

An effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic).

verb

(past & past part. fizzed; pres. part. fizzing)

Become bubbly or frothy or foaming. Synonyms: effervesce, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle. "The river was foaming" , "Sparkling water"

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"Fizz" Quotes from Famous Books

... Redgrave, getting up and following her, "we must celebrate our arrival on a new world as usual. I'll go down and get out the wine. I shouldn't be surprised if we found the people of the Love-World living on nectar and ambrosia, and as fizz is our ...

— A Honeymoon in Space • George Griffith

... though by carrying our freight they were doing us a favor. These German ships, to save you the long pull, anchor close to the beach and lend you their own shore boats and their own boys to work your cargo. And if you give them a few tons to carry, like as not they'll 'dash' you to a case of 'fizz.' And meanwhile the English captain is lying outside the bar tooting his whistle and wanting to know if you think he's going to run his ship aground for a few bags of rotten kernels. And he can't see, ...

— The Congo and Coasts of Africa • Richard Harding Davis

... said Baker, "was the screening out of all elements that might be ever so remotely associated with the crackpot fringe. And believe me, you'll never know how strong it is in this country! Every two-bit tinkerer wants a handout to develop his world-shaking gadget that will suppress the fizz after the cap is removed from a pop bottle, or adapt any apartment-size ...

— The Great Gray Plague • Raymond F. Jones

... sharp taste to plain soda-water). By alkaline we mean "soap-like" or flat, like soda, lye, lime, and soaps of all sorts. If you pour an acid and an alkali together—like vinegar and soda—they will "fizz" or effervesce, and at the same time neutralize or "kill" ...

— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson

... steamer stopped by where I was watching the flying fish fizz out of the blue-ink-like water, skim along for some distance, and drop in again, often, I believe, to be snapped up by some bigger fish; and he gave me a poke in the shoulder with one finger, so ...

— Through Forest and Stream - The Quest of the Quetzal • George Manville Fenn

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