to sizzle
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3.7
- verb
- /ˈsɪzəl/
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chisporrotear
- Just let it sit there for a minute and sizzle.
- sizzling hot
- sizzling bacon
- sizzling meat
If they were synonymous, like you're saying, something could sizzle without cooking.
- If they were synonymous, like you're saying, something could sizzle without cooking.
- And then they don't, they don't, they don't whistle, they sizzle.
- We drizzle some olive oil in and then we're going to put the minced garlic inside and sizzle it.
- Every new technician is told that if a phone battery starts to leak or sizzle or smoke, to throw it in the fire safe and shut the door.
- Besides the mud oven, two wild boar heads sizzling sizzled in a cradle of embers.
- So just pour a little bit on your tongue and just let it pop and fizzle and sizzle.
- And it can't sizzle, sizzle, sizzle and calms down my red dots.
- It's and he goes sizzle, sizzle.
Examples
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"Check out that sizzling bacon."
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The kitchen smelled of sizzling butter and flour marrying eggs and milk.
Fiction book (1995) -
All right, so let's pop these back in and we'll sizzle them up real good.
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Within seconds, the smell of sizzling butter makes her mouth water.
Fiction book (1996) -
When the grease began to sizzle, I reached for the two finest brown eggs, still warm.
Fiction book (1996) -
A mixture of butter and olive oil sizzled in the skillet.
Fiction book (1995) -
Then she plopped each floured cube into a huge iron pot of sizzling fat.
Academic text (2000) -
A sirloin steak hits a grill beside a Tater Tot shish kebab and sizzles to beat the band.
Fiction book (1993) -
When the oil is hot, add the roast; you should hear it sizzle immediately.
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Gentlemen, in two minutes, your burgers will be sizzling and cooked to perfection.
Synonyms
33
2.8
To make short, sharp popping sounds
31
1.9
To make a sharp, high sound like a snake or steam escaping
Make a crackling or popping sound like burning wood
To make small, loud cracks or pops when heated, like salts and minerals
Idioms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Sizzle comes from the same idea — the word copies the sound of frying or hot things meeting oil, similar to hiss. So to sizzle is to make that hot, crackling sound, as food or a hot surface does.