fizzle
fi zuhl
- n a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
- n a complete failure
- v end weakly
- Noah Baumbach thinks he's funny, though his intermittent gags fizzle painfully.
- The French sent armored columns to smash the fellagha, and the revolt seemed to fizzle out.
- With the fizzle of a damp firecracker, the great airmail uproar of 1934 finally petered out last week with passage by Congress of the Administration's Air Mail Bill virtually.