Fizzler

//ˈfɪzləɹ// name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fizzy cocktail.
  2. 2
    A physicist. slang

    "Uncle Nick was this old fizzler on the Hill. The grownups called him Nicholas Baker and the kids all called him Uncle Nick, but the army couldn't fool me. I knew he was Niels Bohr, the world's greatest atomic scientist, all the way from Denmark."

  3. 3
    A kind of firework.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Example

More examples

"Uncle Nick was this old fizzler on the Hill. The grownups called him Nicholas Baker and the kids all called him Uncle Nick, but the army couldn't fool me. I knew he was Niels Bohr, the world's greatest atomic scientist, all the way from Denmark."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From fizzle + -er.

Etymology 2

Clipping of physicist + -er.

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