fizzing

«fizzing» in Mova's school dictionary: Making lots of small bubbles with a hissing sound — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

-ing form of fizz; adjective (fizzing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Making lots of small bubbles with a hissing sound. tree →

2) Full of energy or excitement: «fizzing with ideas». tree →

3) (UK informal) Very angry: «Mum was fizzing». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science experiments: «the mixture is fizzing», a sign a gas is being made (a chemical reaction). In stories: «She was fizzing with excitement». In UK and Irish slang, «fizzing» can mean furious.

examples

• The mixture is fizzing in the beaker. tree →
• Bubbles were fizzing up the side of the glass. tree →
• She was fizzing with excitement before the party. tree →
• The sherbet was fizzing on my tongue. tree →
• Fizzing shows a gas is being made. tree →
• (UK informal) Dad was fizzing when he saw the scratch on the car. tree →

note

From fizz; spelling fizzing (double z, one ing). In science, fizzing is evidence of a chemical change.

In the corpora

• Add more of whichever ran out and the fizzing starts again: that is how you can find out which one it was.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fizzing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.