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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound;
- Example: "a sizzling steak"
- Example: "a sizzling spell of weather"

2. characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement;
- Example: "a red-hot speech"
- Example: "sizzling political issues"
[syn: red-hot, sizzling]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sizzle \Siz"zle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sizzling.] [See Siss.] To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] --Forby. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sizzling \Siz"zling\, a. & n. from Sizzle. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sizzling adj 1: hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather" 2: characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues" [syn: red- hot, sizzling]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

84 Moby Thesaurus words for "sizzling": assibilation, baking, boiling, broiling, burning, buzz, clack, click, crack, cracking, crackle, crackling, crepitation, decrepitation, effervescence, effervescent, effervescing, fiery, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, het up, hiss, hissing, hot, hush, hushing, lisp, red-hot, rhonchus, scalding, scorching, seething, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilant, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, simmering, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, smoldering, snap, snapping, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffing, sniffle, sniffling, snore, snoring, snort, snuff, snuffle, snuffling, spit, spitting, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, swish, torrid, wheeze, wheezing, wheezy, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, white-hot, whiz, whoosh, zip