fizzler

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

fizzle +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

fizzler (plural fizzlers)

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

Etymology 2[edit]

Clipping of physicist +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

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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