fizzy

American  

[fiz-ee] / ˈfɪz i /

adjective

fizzier, fizziest

1. bubbly; fizzing.

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Usage

What does fizzy mean? Fizzy is used to describe things that have a lot of fizz—a bubbliness or bubbly quality, like the kind in a carbonated drink. A much more formal word for fizzy is effervescent. Fizz can also refer to the kind of hissing sound that such bubbliness makes. Fizzy can be used to describe this sound or the thing making it. A fizzy drink that has lost its fizziness is often described as flat. Example: Someone must have shaken up this soda bottle—look how fizzy it is inside!

Etymology

Origin of fizzy

First recorded in 1850–55; fizz + -y ¹