fizzler en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈfɪzləɹ/
Etymology
From fizzle + -er.
Meanings
- A fizzy cocktail.
- A kind of firework.
Forms
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fizzler en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- /ˈfɪzləɹ/
Etymology
Clipping of physicist + -er.
Meanings
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(slang) A physicist.
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.
2004, Jacqueline Davies, Where the Ground Meets the Sky, page 132:
Forms
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| fizzlers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |