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sizzling

verbadjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈsɪzəlɪŋ//

Hot enough to make a hissing sound.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of sizzlepresent participle and gerund of sizzle

adjective

  1. 1

    Hot enough to make a hissing sound.

  2. 2

    Brought to the table in the metal dish it has been cooked in, making such a sound.

  3. 3

    informalExciting and intensely emotional or sexual.

  4. 4

    informalVery skilful or impressive.

    The two teams played a sizzling match.

noun

  1. 1

    Such a hissing sound.

Forms

plural
sizzlings
comparative
more sizzling
superlative
most sizzling
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).