Part 4345

<hw>Fix"gig`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A fishing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sandys.</i>

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<hw>Fiz"gig`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Fizz</ets> + <ets>gig</ets> whirling thing.]</ety> <def>A firework, made of damp powder, which makes a fizzing or hissing noise when it explodes.</def>

<h1>Fizgig</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fiz"gig`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Gig</er> a flirt.]</ety> <def>A gadding, flirting girl.</def>

<i>Gosson.</i>

<h1>Fizz</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fizz</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fizzed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fizzing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. Icel. <ets>f\'c6sa</ets> to break wind, Dan. <ets>fise</ets> to foist, fizzle, OSw. <ets>fisa</ets>, G. <ets>fisten</ets>, <ets>feisten</ets>. Cf. <er>Foist</er>.]</ety> <def>To make a hissing sound, as a burning fuse.</def>

<h1>Fizz</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fizz</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A hising sound; <as>as, the <ex>fizz</ex> of a fly</as>.</def>

<h1>Fizzle</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fiz"zle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fizzled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fizzling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See <er>Fizz</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make a hissing sound.</def>

<blockquote>It is the eas<?/est thinng, sir, to be done, As plain as <b>fizzling</b>. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.</def> <mark>[Colloq. or Low]</mark>

<cs><col>To fizzle out</col>, <cd>to burn with a hissing noise and then go out, like wet gunpowder; hence, to fail completely and ridicuously; to prove a failure. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Fizzle</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fiz"zle</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A failure or abortive effort.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Fjord</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fjord</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Fiord</er>.</def>

<h1>Flabbergast</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Flab"ber*gast</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Flap</er>, and <er>Aghast</er>.]</ety> <def>To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements.</def> <mark>[Jocular]</mark>

<i>Beaconsfield.</i>

<h1>Flabbergastation</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Flab`ber*gas*ta"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being flabbergasted.</def> <mark>[Jocular]</mark>

<i>London Punch.</i>

<h1>Flabbily</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Flab"bi*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a flabby manner.</def>