fizzle v.1
1. (also fisle) to break wind.
 | (trans.) Erasmus Praise of Folie (1509) 71: [T]heir filthinesse semeth more than clennesse vnto theim, that stenche, and fyslyng, smelleth ambre grise. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | A Dialogue betwixt a horse of warre, and a mill-horse n.p.: Mill-horse. Groan underneath thy burthen, fart, and fizzle. | |
| (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk II 331: The false old trot did so fizzle and foist, that she stunk like a hundred devils. | |
| ‘Panche’ in Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript of Loose and Humorous Songs (1868) 65: The woman was windye, & fisled againe. | |
| ‘News and no News’ in Antidote against Melancholy 43: A Fizling Cur in a Ladyes lap, / That’s no News, / And Feathers wagging in a Fools Cap, / That’s no News. | |
| Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 18: I’ll teach him fizzel in my Piss-pot. | |
| A new dictionary French and English VESSE (f.) a foist, or fizzle. Vesser, to foist, or let a sizzle. Vesseur (m.) a foister, or a fizzler. VESSIE (f.) a bladder: . | |
| The mysteries of love & eloquence 110: She is loose and ungirt: / Want of wind makes her pant, / Till she fizzle and rant, / And the hole in her gant, / Is as deep as Levant. | |
| Grobianus 268: Proceed, ye venerable Train! proceed, To fart and fizzle in the Time of Need; Those who retain stale Wind are nasty Sluts. |
2. to defecate.
| ‘Old Simon the Kinge’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 1: Mine ostes was sicke of the mumpes, / her mayd was ffisle at ease. | |
| ‘The Display of the Headpiece & Codpiece in Valour’ in Rump Poems and Songs II (1662) 92: Had the Rump but once fizl’d, ’twas the strongest side. | |
| (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 554: The devil of anything we do, but fizzling, farting, funking, squattering [...] and doing nothing. | |
| Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 241: At Stool I’d fizzle out a thousand Things, / And with Quack’s Bills, then mundify my Breech. |