[f. FIZZ v. or sb. + -ER1.]
1. slang. Anything excellent or first-rate.
1866. Lond. Misc., 19 May, 235/2. If the mar’ was such a fizzer, why did you sell her?
1889. Boldrewood, Robbery under Arms, xli. (1890), 318. That was a regular fizzer of a spree, if we never had another.
2. = FIZZ sb. 3; attrib., as fizzer-man, -brigade.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 11 Sept., 3/2. I may explain that the ‘fizzer-man’ is a species of camp-follower who … takes every opportunity of disposing of his wares, consisting generally of sherbet-and-water. In hot weather Tommy Atkins patronises the fizzer brigade very largely.
