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sizzle

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Textures, sounds
siz·zle /ˈsɪzəl/ verb [intransitive]  CSSOUNDto make a sound like water falling on hot metal 咝咝作响 The bacon began to sizzle in the pan. 熏猪肉在平底锅里开始咝咝作响。
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Examples from the Corpus
sizzleAnd some, like Shania Twain, sizzled.Outside, now: gunfire, screams, sizzling.It was so hot that the water just sizzled and evaporated.She sizzled and singed, then the fire began to take a hold and flames leapt across her skin.I thought about sputtering oil, about sizzling butter.How the sly one squeaked, howled, sizzled, hissed, and swelled his hairy carapace!Bacon was sizzling in the frying pan.She could hear the adjacent streetlight sizzling like a radioactive isotope.Only a clock ticked and a saucepan sizzled, now and then, upon the diminutive stove.The movie sizzles with Morris and Elisa's sexy dialogue.
Origin sizzle (1600-1700) From the sound
siz·zle verbChineseSyllable
to make falling sound a on Corpus like water


sizzle
sizzle /ˈsɪzəl/ verb [intransitive]
 Date: 1600-1700
 Origin: From the sound
to make a sound like water falling on hot metal:
    The bacon began to sizzle in the pan.


siz·zleBrE /ˈsɪzl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsɪzl/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they sizzle BrE /ˈsɪzl/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsɪzl/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it sizzles BrE /ˈsɪzlz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsɪzlz/ 🔊past simple sizzled BrE /ˈsɪzld/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsɪzld/ 🔊past participle sizzled BrE /ˈsɪzld/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsɪzld/ 🔊 -ing form sizzling BrE /ˈsɪzlɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈsɪzlɪŋ/ 🔊 [intransitive] to make the sound of food frying in hot oil 发出(油煎食物的)咝咝声sizzling sausages煎得咝咝作响的香肠to be very exciting, especially in a sexual way 撩拨人心;性感火辣The screen sizzles whenever she appears on it.她每次现身荧屏都性感撩人。 siz·zle noun [singular, uncountable]