fizzler

See also: Fizzler

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪzləɹ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪzlə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: Fizzler

Etymology 1

fizzle +‎ -er

Noun

fizzler (plural fizzlers)

  1. A fizzy cocktail.
  2. A kind of firework.

Etymology 2

Clipping of physicist +‎ -er.

Noun

fizzler (plural fizzlers)

  1. (slang) A physicist.
    • 2004, Jacqueline Davies, Where the Ground Meets the Sky, page 132:
      Uncle Nick was this old fizzler on the Hill. The grownups called him Nicholas Baker and the kids all called him Uncle Nick, but the army couldn't fool me. I knew he was Niels Bohr, the world's greatest atomic scientist, all the way from Denmark.

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