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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

... with the people who received consignments of champagne and good whiskey. And Stires did not. Anyhow, Stires was a temperance man: he took only one or two drinks a day, and seldom went beyond a modest gin-fizz. With the remarkable native punch, compounded secretly and by unknown ways, but purchasable, and much esteemed by the knowing, he never would have anything to do. Stires looked like a cowboy and was, in truth, a melancholy New Englander with a corner-grocery outlook on life, and a nasal utterance ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... "you have not the pluck to be a Christian. Be consistent, and fizz upon a stake; but you're not made of that stuff. You're even afraid of uncle. Nay, you can be caught by those painted wares, about which, when it suits your purpose, you can be so grave. I despise you," he continued, "I despise you, and the whole ...

— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman

... kept a girl—topper she was, too—dark. He was always messing round just like you are, and she was stand-offish as a nun. One night he came home early, a bit screwed—people out—girl in. Met her in the drawing-room. Almost been afraid to speak to her before. Had a bit of fizz on board him now—you know; didn't care a rip for anybody. Gave her a smacking great kiss, and, by Gad!—well, she was all right. Told him she'd always stood off up to then because she was never quite sure what he meant—afraid he didn't mean anything, and that she might get herself into ...

— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson

... sun is sinking behind the swamp where the rattlesnakes bask. For a moment longer the sail gleams like copper in its rays, and then—fizz-z—we have lost it. See! Is that speck on the inky black waters the dauntless Oliver? It is. Let us follow to the island and ...

— Second Plays • A. A. Milne

... "I know you're on the water-wagon; but you have it in for me for some reason, and I want to make it up with you. Take a glass of fizz with me." ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

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