ppl. a. [f. FIZZ v. + -ING2.]
1. That fizzes.
1841. S. C. Hall, Ireland, I. 71. The tribe which congregate outside the rail-road wall, offering to take you and your luggage for ‘next to nothing, or nothing at all, if it be plazing to you’; endeavouring to divert attention from the fizzing train, by every possible and impossible means;—waving their whips in the air—clinging to the outer walls like so many cats—chattering, swearing, shouting, lying—without the smallest visitings of conscience.
1860. Sala, Lady Chesterf., v. 76. He was no champagne drinker; he always associated that fizzing, unsatisfactory, ruinously-expensive wine with Jacobinism, and Buonaparte, and foreign immorality.
1877. Mar. M. Grant, Sun-maid, viii. A shining salver bore a small fizzing urn of antique shape in gold and silver in repoussé work.
2. slang. First-rate, excellent; chiefly quasi-adv.
1885. Daily Tel., 1 Aug., 2/2. ‘She’ll do fizzing,’ remarked Mr. Menders, ‘to stick up at the end of the barrer.’
